Arizona republican., 1904-11-24
The Future of Canada.

Some Canadians continue to be wor- rying about the possible annexation of their country to the United States. The humorous phase of this agitation Is the almost entire absence Of any annexa- ton talk in this country. Whatever is heard in respect to the joining of the Dominion with the states is heard eith- CT in Canada or from the mouths of Canadians in this country. In sub stance the two countries are the same, the boundary line between the two not being sufficient to make two distinct races. Of course the Canadians have their peculiarities, and each province Is distinct from the others in many ways, just as there is a difference in the characteristics of the people of the several states in this country.
 Canada stretches from ocean to ocean, embracing a tremendous terri tory, the joint population of which is just about equal to the combined pop ulation of New York and Philadelphia In a sense it is an unwieldly country and there Is much waste land and hun dreds Of thousands of square miles Of nothing of especial value. Canada would lose nothing by becoming a part Of the United States and the United States would simply gain an increased area and the extension of the limit of the influence of the Stars and Stripes. We do not fancy it would be a matter of much value to this country to in clude the rest of the land on this hemi- sphere to the north, yet it would be the natural amalgamation of the two people.
 There is, however. not to be any az gressive- action by the United States looking to the annexation of Canada or the admission of that country n the shape of bunch of new states. Time is to settle the matter, and while an- nexation may not come for twenty-five or fifty years it is ultimately bound to be brought about. And this union will be through the desire of the Canadians themselves and along lines of harmony and good feeling. An interesting dis patch on this subject came from Otta-
 
 Professor Goldwln Smith, in a letter to the press, defends himself against being called a pessimist because of his recent utterances here.
 "A word on another point" he says. For thirty years I have been holding familiar intercourse with Americans of every class and party, and in that time l have never heard a single word ex- pressive of the slightest desire to az gress upon Canadian independence. The general feeling about us is indiffer- ence. Most Americans know very little about us. I have been asked by Amer jeans generally well informed whether the French were nationaIized and whether British Columbia was in the dominion.
 If annexation ever comes its chief promoters will have been the Canad- ian statesmen who stretched out the territory of the dominion to such a length and across such gaps and bar riers as seem almost fatal to perma- nept unity and separation from the adjoining states. But the fiat will be that of nature, who, if she has made up her mind, will have her way"
 As Professor Smith says, nature will have its way. and the natural outcome of time is to make Canada and the United States one great country. The Canadians keep drifting across the boundary line by thousands and the people of this country are taking up farms and building manufacturing plants in Canada. In some places the