The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1903-11-05
CANADA WOULD Be
LEFT TO HERSELF
Tendency of the Dominion i
Said to Be Toward In
dependence.
WE'VE NOT UNDERSTOOD
canadian Residents in England Un.
consciously Misrepresent Sentiment
IF Their countrymen of This
Side the Ocean.

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Ottawa correspondence of the Boston
England? When the butler OF Tleo-
phrastus Such was asked the cause OF the
tides he replied: Some says one thing.
and some says another. but If ] was 10
give my opinion 1t 'uG be different" Mr..
Chamberlain has been telling Engianders
to rely on the expressions of prominent
Canadians resident In London. Those eN-
pressions are merrily read by many in
Canada, who understand, as Americans do
of compatriots abroad, that each coiatl-
tutes himself a G~ipscmatist of the school
which holds that d~lp!onatists are sent
abroad to tell taradiddles for the good OF
their country. Are prominent and nice
Englanders resident In Boston, New York
or Chicago taken as examples Of English
opinion, when they talk for publication?
Any English who happen to read this
communication will know what is meant.
Decency and courtesy require uitlanders-
at least In a powerful country that can't
be raiasaa 70 say aloud only what is pleas
Ing to the circumjacent.
- Canadians IF England.
II the testimony-for publicat,on-of
prominent Canadians resident in I.ondon
were to be taken without a grain of salt
this dominion contains about six million
people, including Indians, all competing
for the loyalty prize: all praying for the
king morning, noon and night, with their
faces turned to the Mecca of Windsor
Castle; all blessing Mr.. Chamberlain as
the one true prophet; all eager to give j.
B. a preference In trade over everybody
else, including themselves. 1t is mag
%nificent, and 1t may be peace, but when
one goeaIpoking round in Canada for such
loyaliSts he sees no more of them than
Thoreau could Of the horse the hawk
and the hound that were ever elusive. Is
there then no loyalty to England In Can
ada2 There is. 1mmensities of II. On the
whole honest, sane, trustworthy. 1t Is
generally or tine same quality as the 10y
atty that the Englishman who never was
out Of Kent feels toward the Canadian at
Calgary, or the australian at. Bendigo.
1t says In its heart two things-Taou art
my brother and Thou shalt a ere l
want. Aye. ard a third: Thou shalt be
backed by me against anybody else
whenever I feel like it" This is a salts
factory Threshold political cord Tor beard
ed men, though Canadians temporarily ex-
ceeding s-entimentalities In London may
think 1t heartlessly described.
Change of Mind.
Mark Twain the Wise once remarked
on the foolishiiess of processing thorough
knowledge of the American mind, There
are many millions of X. he said. IL effect
Nobody can know 1t. or guass what ii viii
dc Iii strange circumstances Which of
MS who went into shattered Petersburg
or 8dreary Richmond in April, 1855, coiid
have conceived of the American northern
mind as passtyeiya&watehins the siow re-
avival of negro slavery circumstances
change and nations are reformed by
them. II there can be no accurate dag
snosis OF the mind CT the comparatively
Homogeneous republic how postniate any
thing OF the sentiment OF heterogeneous
SCafsada3 There are two main races and
two main creeas here: flfty other races.
and I'D other creeds. The units are scat
tered over half continent: they all have
votes; they are all Canadians alike, and
all alike to- be reckoaed with In esttmat-
ing Canadian sentiment. The effustys
selttrnentaiists In London appear uncon-
scious or this when they represent Cam
adams as entertaining sentiments 80 or
der" and made up for the d%slectation Of
that English society element that holds
the Chamberlainite cult.
Younger People Less British.
As to the degree In which the English
automatic spirit moves Canadians toward
separation o~rsccnealete independence, the
inquirer ma get more enlightenment
from young Canadians than from the old-
er generation. Politicians utter opinions
thai won't be likely To cost them any
votes. and merlsof business are cautious
In talkiIg for publication lest they offend
clients or customers. Thu small minor
tiles often modify public declarations.
Children and students tell frankly what
they have ut heart. partly what they have
caught from their parents talking incau-
ttonsly at home, and partly what they
catch from q another and their environ
ment.
StudertsSo Toronto university say that,
the stud arlry there isanot British SO
much as Canadian. From students at UpA,
per Canada college which Ii governing
body deliberately attempted to make ex-
5trernely British ald impesialsstic through
the late leadn,aater, DR.. Parkin. one re-
ssceives h same report. III appears true
Of sh5cGih ;::s. vess .sssSa N entreal, and isi
certainly 50 Of Laya and the Fiench col
leges generallySsSthht the ounge safrodI-
boys are Canadiansdnlsthair sentiments.
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