Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1903-11-05
CANADA WOULD Be
LEFT TO HERSELF
Tendency Of the Dominion Is
Said to Be Toward In
dependence.
VIEWS NOT UNDERSTOOD
Canadian Residents in England Un-
consciously Misrepresent Sentiment
Of Their countrymen Of This
Side the Ocean.

wv NSt
England? When the butler of Thco-
phrastus Such was asked the cause OF the
tides he replied: Some says one thing,
an some says another, but IL / was to
give my opinion 1t 'ud be different" Mr..
Chamberlain has been telling E~nglanders
to rely on the expressions of prominent
Canadians resident in London. Those ex-
pressions are merrily read by many in
Canada, who understand, as Americans do
Of compatriots abroad, that each consti-
tutes himself a dipiomatist OF the school
which holds that d~iplomatists 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 uitlandcrs-
Mt least In "a powerful country that can't
be raided-tO say aloud only what Is pleas
Ing to the circumjacent.
Canadians in England.
II the testlmony-for publication-of
prominent Canadians resident In London
were to be taken without "A grain of salt
this dominion contains about six million
people, including Indians, all competing
Tor the loyalty prize; all praying for the
kin 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. q preference in trade over everybody
else. including themselves. 1t is mag
nihcent. and 1t may be peace, but when
N goes poking round in Canada for such
loyalists he sees no more of them than
Thoreau could of the horse and the hawk
and the hound that were ever elusive. Is
there then no loyalty to England in Cam
d There Is. Immensities of 1t. On the
whole honest. sane. trustworthy. 1t is
generally of the 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 Bendlgo.
1t nays in Its heart two t~hings-"Thou art
my brother" and Thou shalt want ere 1
want" Aye. and q third: Thou shalt be
backed by me against anybody else
whenever I feel like It," This is a salts
factory three-fold political cord for heard
wedding sentimentalities in London may
think 1t heartlessly described.
Change Of Mind.
Mark Twain the Wise once remarked
on the foolishness of protesting thorough
knowledge of the American mind There
arc many millions of 1t. he said. in effect.
Nobody can know 1t. or guess what 1t will
do In strange circumstances. Which of
u who went into shattered Petersburg
or dreary Richmond in April. 1865, could
ave conceived of the American northern
MIND As passively watching the slow re-
vival OF negro slavery? Circumstance
change and nations are reformed by
them. II there Gun be nc accurate dag
nOSls Of the mind OF the comparatively
homogeneous republic how postulate any
thing of h sentiment Of heterogeneous
anada There are two main races and
w main -creeda here; hfty other races,
and no other creeds. The units are scHt-
tered over half a continent; they all have
votes; they are all Canadians alike. and
Al alike to be reckoncd with in estimat-
Ing Canadian sentiment. The ELUSIVE
~sentimentalists In London appear uncon-
sctous OF this vchen they represent Can
edtans ~ entertaining sentiments ito or
der and made up for the delectation OF
that English society element that holds
the ChAmberlainite cult.
Younger People Less British.
AZ to the degree in which the English
automatic spirit moves Canadians toward
or complete Independence, the
inquirer may get more enlightenment
rom young Canadians than from the old
Or generation. Politicians utter opinions
that won't be likely to cost them any
votes. and men Of business are cautious
IN talking for publication lest they offend
clients or cuatomers. Thus small minor
tiles often modify public declarations,
children n students tell frankly what
they have ut heart. partly what they have
caught from their parents talking incau-
tonsly at home. and partly what they
meat
9tudent Of Toronto university say that
the .Utudenry there Is not British 50
much ~ Canadian. From students at Up-
Per Canada college, which the governing
body deliberately attempted to make OK.
tremcly British and imperialistic through
tho Iete leadmaster. DR.. Parkin. one re-
oeivee h IA report. 1t appears true
OF 1c0M university II Montreal, and is
certainly 10 Of Laval and the French col.
ieges generally. that the n school.
ooys are Canadian In their sentiments.