New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-31
DESTINY OF CANADA.
GOE6Scin Smith Says No One Is
Thinking Of Anncration, bat
IT Mou Come.

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n this sense. that nobody either IN Canada ~ the
United States is taking thinking of thai
question Scr does 3. seera lifely that ANYBODY
ether n Canada CT N the United States viii bo
taking thinking about = for some veara 10 coma
10 octoEei-a"tan has any practical Interest IN H.
TIE idea Tint the people Of Tho United States have
any design against Canadian Independence nay be
c-ti-ely dismissed. TIE present writer has for
rsarlv to-ty years coaversed WITH Americans OF all
classes ana parties without hearing ANYTHING of
tAe ldna. ~ eacounterfse a-v appearance Of hos
El.ty 20 Canada The Irish quarrel was embraced
- American politicians fo- TIE sake Of tie Irish
vote. the importance = which he's OF late greatly
sec'ncc. ;,at little or morning Is heard OF II n
tfo -oVserrr % forces for Presidential elections
Ia attempting forecast several things must be
taken into account. ore is tle state OF American
Institutions. which shows the ruth o. Bacon's
SAYING the- what maa does not change for the
better Tlre. The great Ianovatcr will be changing
for Ire worse IN tie United States Time has been
concentrating power in the Senate. while the Sen
etc n which the smaller states have equal repre-
se1tation Wi'h The greatest. has become a concave
q special interests -th policy hut stand pat"
enc incapable of forming or pursuing any great
ces'g7. Nor car We vet tell VIA; effect the
Psrama Canal II i succeeds. or extended relations
WstA Mexico may have IL drawing the United
States eou;llward. Tie ava keniag of japan. prob
ably with China in her train. and her apparent
tendency 10 get footing on the Paciac Coast are
ESQ 10 be considered in casting the horoscope OF
the future.
Tie movement al present on foot and apparently
gaining strength Is that OF commercial reciprocity
only, leaving the question OF political relations IN
touched PrctectioEisrn has never defined its area
TIE political is defined by nationality Nature
his defined Tho commercial area as simply that oe
profitable exchange
On c'e other hand, events march and natural
forces show their power. The action OF The great
forces often is long suspended by that Of
secondary forces; but in the end the great forces
prevail II was SO in the case CT italy and
Germany. Statesmen renowned for sagacity said
after the failures IN each that union would
never come il carne. with She hour CT destiny and
win the man So 70 al appearances It will be in
ire case Of this northern continent Of America
To know what Canada really IS. the inquirer must
use not thu political bur the physical man. The
political map presents her as an unhroken expanse
embracing haif Of the Eorth American Continent
Including the North Pole: colored red in the Jubee
stamp. and more than caualiing in extent all the
PEST OF the British Empire In reality he Dominion
iEg broken line the continent and separated
from each other ~ wide spaces cr great barriers
railway viiie liiixz rber Tes ~ ne yoIt Va ne
rsying tracts as well Is the lisbiiities of q SUB
arctic climate Apart from the present NOV ement
Vsst there is iittle interchange Of population.
There is ALREADY 70 great extent practical fusion
United States. There are $4,000 native Canadians
IN ne tsan 5000 o. y III . 10 = stdo
market fndz himself AZ a premium Of French
canadians there are believed 10 he I590Oo in Nars,
chusette alone There is a counter cIrrenf az Amer
Scans into the Northwest Churches interchange
ministers. Associations and fraterni!ies of al
-inds span. seine Totally ignore. the line The
inner resorts are IN common canadians read
1e American magazines American newspapers
can currency crculates everywhere but in govern
ment oihces New York is the Canadian Stock Ez-
Canada ia eSerenee 10 the atoe is without fea as
divorce Canadians divorce
courts of the United States.
That there is sueh thing as anti American 1ee,'
4Rg IN Canada Is true u resides chiefly IN certain
circles especially those Of The descendants OF L F.
EeThars certain sense Of socsl sIperiorit. also is
have had some Efforts Of late to stimulate ills sen
fiTnent. but they were very limited in their range
anti-Ameficanisla. though akin TO II and connected
with imperialism, is he Worship Of The flag ,shch
nor he supposed tiat seitInlents or fanccs OF this
kind will in the end prevail over the manifest in
terests OF Tie great body Of the people On both
or imperial federation Z IS hardly necessary 70
speak It has been preached for generation with.
out presenting a plan We have only pee. eaaor.ea
70 think mperially" and propagate the sentiment.
20 be? How is II 70 be elected or apolea- " e.st
10 he its powers? What are 70 be the relations
and Foreign Office? What IS 10 be done with
lada2 The answer to al these questions Is:
Meantime lis msiesty's Eastern subjects and al
les are eKelgded as aiis or aG6e 'ah aneS
In binding on Canadian sentiment II should he
borne IN n5jrS ,lat e.anada has been and now
more than over IS undergoing ioosening Of the
te ~ race by foreign Immigration: u we exclude
tie Catholic Irish. who not British IN sentiment
barely half the population is row British "a,
Political parting from the mother country VIII
rot be Tie porting OF the heart. on the contrary.
the bono Of the heart which as things are: Is N
some danger. Will he assured by II ~ present
have that there is a good deal or 1rictlon
between the mother country and the colony: the
mother country calling On the colony for military
COLONY complaining thar the mother country fails
70 assert its interest in dealings with toresn GOV
prerogaiive and seeking 10 combine the imnunities
q dependency with the character ana pflb W,
n nation. The hawser IL being iretteu All uie
The feeling Of Britis,, Canadians toward the
mother coiIntry being. what Fl is the union OF
Canada with the United States. should i ever
oo.le. IN pecs 81 a pIo5 ticsbl ant, OF rniiitary
defence would give England a strong moral NJ
huence in The councils of the western o9 9
There not little 10 be Eaia N iSEor oi
twofold trial OF democracy on this continent. a
AT-Tifed sfates might have been possible so long
anything Ike the unity OF territorial nasis ap
unity rernsined But when the Dominion was
stretched in widely separated sectlons aI9ss me s
whole continent, the sembiance o. tesf4loiieA UNITY
The Northwest. with its boundless wheat fields Ids
rnents-Canadian British Icelandic. Gaiieian
Swedish, Russian DOukhobors and Aennontes ana
Jewish All immigration has been somewhat olnc-
- Welcomed by an nacritical desire OF an increase
q poTulation- which IL supposed |naIeNeT may
BE- It's elements be sure Increase OF prosperity
Even II the immigrant IS n good farmer ne my my
not he go2d citizen or GOOD lnatesls 3s 90 he an
70 neEotiate through the headmnn OF MS can SUI
how there is a great .nrush OF American farmers
from adjoining states OF THE Union That these
men VIII he good Canadian citizens ana loEal SUP
lects OF the British Crown need not be doubted
TIE institutions and laws Of Canada are much the
ss-ne aE their own. and he revolutionary. haired
iHpelieiists they win not he. VIII they let
ssemseives be shut out from trade With The ad-
.o.ns slates Tor the benent OF brltlsn SSpita1ists
~ me rate ~ which the Northwest is MIN 9, ana