The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22
TREND OF CANADIANS
IS TOWARDS INnEPENpnNcx-A THE ALASKAN BOUNDARY
 -t4-. AN ARD
Has Done Much to Strengthen tLe Movement-French Element Power Grows-Has Long Cherished Idea of
 Separation.

ottaWR Special te Brooklyn Eagle.
 Joseph Chamberlain,s policy received ( shock tn Canada when the Alaskan award was announced Imperial federation al once lost something that was not to be taken for granted, but a prpblem that would require careful thought before be. ada
 Canada. in times past. was inclined to accept the attitude of Britain on any question e the proper one. This Is nov changed. Canadians of the average jn- tslfigenee that is, the majority, believe thsy hays been made the victims of a bun0o game and they resant the hRmilia- tion to thsir pride just when they had be- gun to think the Dominion was . nation.
 Into the forefront of politics has come out the movement for the independence of Canada, not only in French Canada, but alae In the British Province of Ontario The idea of Canada's Independence has long been a cherished dasire oE French Canadians, but they have kept it much to themselves through the medium of their language. which fewer than half of the people in the country can speak, and by reason of the fact that the English speaking portion of the population does not eondescend to note the actions of the French Canadians. regarding them as rather inferior.
 But the leaders of political thought in Quebec have grown bolder suddenly. They have sent an ambassador to Ontario in the person of Henri Bourassa. M. P. the most ardent Nationalist and anti-Im- periaiist in Canada. He Is q fayorite of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, whose successor as leader of the French Canadians he Is des- tined to be. As the days 80 on the French clement in Canada gathers strength and their leader in the future will have the power to be the big gest man in the land and to lead his people wherever he wills.
 At the present rate of increase they will be in the majority within the next ten years. The last census shows that there are l.64ssOe French Canadians in Quebec alone, while there are only 2.ls2S47 Eng lish-speaking people in Ontario. the larg- est province. In ten years the former have increased by 1e0,3eS, while the lat ter show an increase of but G. .S2s And this is not taking into account the large number of French Canadians who will be found in the newer lands of Canada, away in the far west and up in the north where the foot of few Engiishmen has troA. Win numbers comes political pow 0r and it has come already. In the list of Kings birthday honors only two Ca. naAians were made C. M C., but trey wers French Canadians. Colonel Pinsuit and LoniD HeTbert, the sculptor. The ImpAFial service order, a new decoration, was given to a dozen persons, but the majority are French and those that are not are irish Catholics.
 So with its blood relations in the high day of their increase in numbers and power. comes Henri Bourassa. N. P, as . missionary to the ultra-British prov ines of Ontario. Last Monday night he told the citizens of Toronto that the French Canadians were anti-ImpeFialists though still loyal to canada and Britain. ThaiT motto was, however. For Country and King" while the motto of the Eng. nsh spaalElng Canadians was For King and Country"
 In military matters the province of Quehee, he said. would oppose any scheme that aimed wider than the de- fense of Canada. He was not disposed to take the actions of Britain on faith.