Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-21

Canadian Pacific railroad. and they to save
the property.
They were waiting anxiously when they
received cipher kilograms from both Lon
don and Washington that war was lneVi-
table. Thereupon q meeting of the high
officials of the road was secretly called.
The matter was discussed and 1t was de-
cfded that Canada could not possibly de-
fend the western branches of the railroad
and that should the Americans come the
officers should be instructed to hand over
the line at once under protest. They de-
cided to do this in order that there might
be no destruction of property. Great Brit
ain, however, preferred to pocket the af
front of Clevelands proclamation and the
danger OF war disappeared. The secret
meeting has been kept quiet until this day,
but my informant. man high in the Offices
of the dominion government, tells me that
there is no doubt as to the truth of this
story.
Jealous Of the Americans.
The Canadians of the west are more in
sympathy with the Americans than those
of the east Indeed, l understand there is
an old tory element here that lies awake
nights trying to find excuses for rubbing
the international hair the wrong way. This
element Is opposed to all things American.
1t wants a tariff wall, higher than the
Tower OF Babel. between the countries and
would like to keep out Uncle Sans
phews and nieces. 1t has been recently
worried because most of the magazines
read in Canada are made in the United
states and 1t has been asking the govern
ment to charge extra postage rate on
such periodicals and thereby make the ma
ton go to bed early by falling to sleep
over the dull English periodicals and So
called funny papers. 1t Is largely this ele-
ment that made a fuss not long ago about
our Associated Press furnishing most of
the news matter for the Canadian papers
and it SO agitated that subject that the Ca
madam government has subsidized a spe-
cial news service for Canada between the
dominion and England. 1 am told that this
service is regularly scooped by our Asso-
ciated Press
In justice to these people generally, how
ever. | want to say that such things are
merely pimples on the body polite. The
average Canadian is good fellow, fair,
honest and full of common sense. He likes
the American far better than the English
man, and especially in the west does he
realize that the American Is helping most
to build up the country There IS no man
more welcome and none who is having
larger share in all the opportunities and a
squarer deal in all other respects.
American Women in Canada
Speaking of jealousy between the two
countries reminds me Of a little discomfort
which I discovered among our American
ladies IN Winnipeg. They claim. so I am
told. that they have not been received quite
as well as they should be. Indeed, 1t is
said that the fair Winnipegger banking
upon the blue blood of the British empire,
thinks herself somewhat better than our
American princesses, even though the lat
ter be the daughters of money kings
Indeed, there is what might be call
ed an American colony In Winnipeg
whose members flock by themselves and
who. in many cases, feel that they are I'M
welcome among the fashionable four hun
dred of the pure Canadians. This Ameri-
can colony Is rapidly growing and the male
members of 1t are among the chief men Of
the city. They have already high ffnan-
cial standing, and in the coming develop
ment will probably hold their place among
the richest men OF the west. Their wives
are well educated and are fully the equals
Of the Condolences
In the other cities of western Canada the
ladies of the two nations are more closely
associated and the Americans are even
more popular than the English The fash
ions here come from the United States and
the home life of the people is about the
same. Nearly every town has its woman's
clubs of q literary and social nature and
many have clubs for golf and other sports.
The Aristocracy Of the Dollar.
Indeed, about the only aristocracy in
Canada Is the aristocracy of the dollar
The Canucks worship 1t quite as much as
the Yankees, and they bend their knees
even more humbly before It. This is
especially so in the case of the managers
and officials of the chartered banks, who
are in Canada, more than anything
else, the visible emblem OF the gold
en- calf. These people have a position
of their own and are quite on the top of
the social heap. In the smaller cities the
bank manager and his wife lead the social
circle, and the $50 a month bank clerk
thinks himself above the dry goods sales
man over the way or the commercial trav
eler who may have twice his brains and
three times his salary. For, why. the lat
ter are in trade.
In addition to the bank clerks and capt.
talists is the small society of nobility made
SO by the favor of Great Britain. At
the head of this is the governor general,
Earl Grey a simon-pure nobleman appoint
ed by the king. Next to him are a few
sirs who have earned their titles by service
to the country. These are chiefly railroad
officials, or such men as Lord Strathcona,
who was so long at the head of the Hud-
sons Bay Company, and who had much to
do with building the Canadian Pacific.
The French Canadians.
Indeed as far as blue blood Is concerned.
about the purest in Canada flows through
the veins of the French Canadians. Many
of the old families of this class can trace
their ancestry back beyond the days of the
Mayfiower. They are descended from the
feudal nobility created here by the French
kings during colonial days. They are
proud of their ancestry but on the whole
are not as clannish or as exclusive as the
English, who have risen through money
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