Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-24
AN AMERICAN CANADA
All About the New Nation of the
British Northwest.
EAST AGAINST THE WEST
What the Great Yankee Invasion May
Mean.
THE RECIPROCITY SENTIMENT
John Bull VS.. Uncle Sam-Canucks
Like Our Goods-Better Than Those
of English Manufacture.

Copyright, 1905. by Frank C. Carpenter.)
WINNIPEG
Are we to have an Americanized Canada
in the British northwest?
VIII these vast territories now settling
some time be part of the United States?
Or will they. as they grow, rise in their
might and make a live, up-to-date Canada
of their own?
They are now the tail ~ the dominion.
VIII the tail not wax Eat, like thai of an
angry cat ana wag the body a. the ether
end?
Shall John Bull, tia: great grown up
golden calf have the worship of the mil
lions to come as he has had that of the
eastern Canadians, in the past; or will the
latter also unite with these new men of
the west to cast him Gown from his altar
on this North American continent and in
stall there the Goddess of Liberty instead?
These are some of the questions which
are slumbering here in this fast growing
country above our international boundary.
An Americanized Canada.
As for me, l have no doubt but that
western Canada will eventually be Ameri-
can. 1t has already 10000 of our citizens
who are old enough to vote and there gre
some thousands more Who are very close
to eighteen years OF age. Eighty thousand
new United States citizens expected 10
settle in the wheat belt during the COM
ing year and American influence is every
where growing. The population OF west
ern Canada, including Manitoba, is prob
ably now just about one million, so that
these Americans if they become natural
lied will more than hold the balance OF
power. They are, moreover, the live ele-
ment of the Canadian west, that which is
bound to control things and do things.
Indeed, institutions are IN many re-
spects the ideals of the Canadians. Moth
ing succeeds like success. We have taken
q raw country and made a great nation.
Canada hopes to do the same. The peo-
pie here believe in the American tariff
and in American business methods.
The opening up of this new country is
largely due to our citizens, and tho other
immigrants who are coming in look up
to and model their ways after them. AS
it is now one-third of the new settlers are
composed of slow-actin eastern Canadians
who lack initiative and push. A second
third is made up of Europeans who
largely ignorant and must he educated and
assimilated before they will make good
farmers or citizens, while the last third
is composed of busting, energetic, pushing
sons of the United States the most OF whom
have come here with money in their pock-
cts and constitute the cream of the-coun-
try The native-born western Canadian is
as like his American brother as one pea
erners and new Americans will work to-
gether Both are united in their desire
to build up new country and both care
so little for the old that they will smash
the images at the slightest proYocation.
If it pays them to stay with eastern Can
ada they will do so. II 1t seems advisa-
BILE to separate and have an Independent
west they will do that, and If the time
comes when their pocketbook interests are
with the United States they will drop
Great Britain and the east and go for an
nexation These are possibilities which
may be realized in the future and the
natural conditions such that they will
probably bring about striking changes
within not many years.
Eastern Canada VS.. Western Canada
1t is doubtful whether eastern and west
ern Canada can pull together. The con-
trolling political influence in the east is
French. The premier, Sir Wiifred Laurler.
is a Frenchman. the party now ruling is
bossed by the French and the French hold
the balance of power in the federal legisla-
ture The west is Anglo-Saxon and the
French are comparatively few
The French Canadian wants no change.
He loves Canada as an annex to
Great Britain, and he would fight
for 1t as such. He looks upon the
Anglo-Saxon almost a foreigner and
nrides himself as being the real Canadian
who antedated HIM and is indigenous to
the soil His element is not confined. as
some suppose, TO Quebec. There are French
in every eastern province, Seventy per
cent of the citizens of Montreal are of
French descent, there is large French
element in Toronto and in every town east
paper in Canada is French. and there are