The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-10

Z ueIliS mere, lnPS lall utterly to under
stand Canada, and their nervous chatter
, about the 5mericanization OF the Canadl-
J an West makes them ridiculous More
/ over, he continued III. f. II. is out Of
! fish ashore"
Precisely as bis box. coming of age,
. longs 10 cut loose from the OLD folks
to try il alone: 10 he his own boss and
boss his own jobs. doth this Dominion
OF Canada. merging into manhood, as It
were, fret 10 be free from England To run
! up banner of its own aud TO blossom
out as nation Some millions of Canadi-
ans know Ibis, thousands will admit f.
hundreds have.
This feeling has been growing steadily
Tor ten years Naturally. Canada can
never become 4 Kingdom so there is a
dream in the working hours OF present
DAY statesmen OF republic fashioned
after that of Switzerland The American
Republic, once so naughty and arrogant
when dealing with Canada. is coming
, more and more 10 respect the big men
OF the Dominion. Canadian papers are
full OF nice things about America and
Americans The Governor of Kingston
was more severely criticised above than
he was below the border
Serious statesmen in England know the
Dominion Is drifting, and every little
while something happens TO emphasize
the fact that she is not drifting from
the United Statcs-little things like the
Choate 10 the Canana club at Ottawa
and the more recent and vastly more
important visit Of Mr. Root Lord Grey
goes 10 New York the Minister of Jus
House 10 meet the American Supreme
Court, But more Than all these little eX-
changed calls and the constant stream Of
sturdy Americans 10 the Canadian West
mas helped TO convince Canadians that
there is. after all, little difference be-
tween the people OF the Republic and
me people Of the great colony They see
these Americans coming IN settling down
in
almost unprecedented prosperity. accept
inG things as lhey are. respecting the
laws OF the land and the customs of the
country: IN short. behaving precisely as
the millions Of Canadians have behaved
who have crossed the BOUNDARY. for the
same reason that brings Americans and
many former Canadians 10 Canada de-
sire 10 better their condition. This
steady stream that still flows across the
New England frontier. sweeps through
Inc Middle West and back into Canada,
mat Is slowly bur surely making OF Amer
leans and Canadians one people
Inc men who are steering the ship OF
state are heading for the open sea of
absolute Independence They have their
own anthems and patriotic airs. and 90
per cent OF native Canadians can read
And write This year the Dominion Gov
ernment Will send a number of exploring
expeditions into the Wild to map and
measure the unknown. for there arc mil
lions OF acres of Canada that have
EieareeF Known the touch OF real shoe
leather The soldiers arc drilling, the
Doukhobors arc building RAILWAYS and
the Northwest mounted police are blazing
rev trails. Tho construction Of an all
,anadian military highway from central
British Columbia and Alberta 10 the
r<on Territory NH go on with renewed
enefeE thls spring. Capt Mcdonnell OF
ne Royal Northwest mounted police.
from HazIetor. r. c.. with an expedition.
He has charge OF trail-blazers road
builders and bridge builders \ course
VIII he blaaed. bridges built ana a pack
route cut from HaZleton, through tho
Rockies. 10 Fort Graham. NJ the head
nf the Dease river. Not only WIN this
long road connect the heart Of The Cana
dian central provinces with the Yukon
for military precauron but it will form
a highway much needed for irappcrs
pTospectors and hunters
And ever. as these prelimnarlcs go on.
We arc mixing, commercially and social
~. Canadians hy hundreds 20 south in
winter Americans, hv thousands come
north In summer. The American bar
of which is presently bottled and bull
lcTned on tbc windows tina, look out on
Gotham's Great White WAY"
Now, as America Is digging its big
canal, Canada begins the twentieth CEN
tury, which. according Ia her optimistic
Premier, is io ne har century. bv build
Ing new national highway that will
not only shorten The run around tho
across this continent.
Only seven wears ago poem in the
New Yorl; Sun began.
"SiE sleeps IN sleeper from Montreal,
And = moon or so from the end of the
line
When the Grand Trunk Pacific, which
is being built partly by the Dominion
Government and partly hv the Grand
Trunk. Is completed. II win he hut six
sleeps IN a sleeper from Montreal 10
hs . which
To he The western terminus Of the now
road. The railway which builds the
western half; but Is 10 operate the whole
system. at least for fifty wears has
employed expert engineers and landscape
gardeners. and this unborn metropolis Of
the Northern coast is 10 be all measured
and mapped ont before a foot OF land
is offered To The public. There will be
land set aside for shops and wh7rNos. as
we'll as for all publ" buildings, so that
before house ia erected il will he posi-
bio for a man with an Imagination 10
look upon the plan and Fe" the future
great city sitting maj-stically on the pic
iurrsque shore, 10 hear the CHINOOK
limited coming out cf the hills and see
th, great white ships coming and going
through the milo wide road that loads
from the Iandiocked harbor TO the open
sen.
The future republic OF Canada, pro
iected on the north by the north pole
and on The south b. the Stars ana
Stripes can IN time OF war. rush troops
from the Aile0tlf 10 lnN EH'ln' ~ "
little over three days along this almost
level line now building. Nowhere VIII
The grade reach l per cent, or even one
half OF ] per cent. and II VIII reach inc
rrost of the continent At an altitude 1000
feet below the city OF Denver and nearly
a mile below Tennessee pass. where the
Denver & Rio Grande crosses the Great
Divide.
And If this dream of republic does
not come trile-wl7at a hooT VIII iolS
line OF least resistance he 10 Great Brit
ain, When the company puts MS iast
liners an the Atlantic II will he only
about "sx sleeps" from Queenstown 10
Prince Rupert. which IS 500 miles nearer
Yokohama than any either Canahiah OF
American port. Assuredlv Canada rs pre-
uaring for- The future. whatever that ln-
ture may he. republic or no repuhic