The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-05


UNITED STATES AND CANADA.
This exodus of Americans from
the dear lands of Iowa to the cheap
lands of Manitoba is not only nat
ural but desirable, says the Wash
lington Post "rhe more Americans,
native and to the manner born, who
make homes in Canada the better
for our country, even though Canada
were to remain alien to our republic
forever We are neighbors and our
Governments are sprung from the
same seed. There is as much lib
erty in Canada as there is in the
United States. The Canadians ask
the King of England to furnish them
a Governor General to be the exec
utive figurehead Of their Government.
Every four years we have six months
+, of Mysteries, making President, who
lis pretty nearly the ruler of this
country. The Governor General has
nothing to do but obey the order of
the parliament. Unless we mend our
manners the day is not distant when
our Congress will have nothing to
ldo but obey the American President.
We are nearly 100,00O,00O
men, women and children. Basically,
we are Anglo-Saxon, with insatiate
gluttony for dominion over the soil,
and we only follow the nature in us
when an American sells 100 acres In
Iowa to acquire 1000 acres across the
border. Let the natural law of hab-
itation have its way. 1t cannot be
repealed.
To reprove so able and charming a
contemporary as the Washington Post
is moral necessity which CRATES on
the feelings of the Cincinnati En-
quirer. Possibly the close proximity
of the Post TO the Administration has
led the Post into line of philosophy
which is not American. 1t Is the
right of man to move from one coun-
try to another, and even to change |
his allegiance, but It Is nothing to |
praise him for. The American who |
gets from under the fair Stars and |
Stripes and takes OFF his hat to the !
unromantic banner of Great Britain, 1
because he can get more land in |
Manitoba than he can in Iowa or /
some other state of the Union, shows
no quality but sordidness. If he has |
any grace or virtue it is overpowered /
Dy his porcine attachment to a mon
irch's flag. The movement to i
Canada is almost wholly on the part |,
If new pledged Americans. Thous-
lnds OF the foreigners who settled
llong our northern border came to
his country for the betterment of
heir material condition. This Is not
laid in derogation of our long-stand-
ng policy of encouraging good i'm
migration, for the great bulk of our
which is foreign born or
# foreign extraction, enters fully in
o the spirit of our institutions, and Z
Ights for us Loyalty and with devo-
ion when we are at war, but the per- 4
on who is merely prospecting for land L
S not an ideal American, and he In
oes not meet the requirements of a e
'ourth of July celebration. n
1t is merely a frantic figure of n
peech to say that there is as much II
berty in Canada as there is In the Ia
inited States" The King of Eng Il
md appoints whom he pleases to be lp
overnor General. He may or he v
lay not be figurehead The King ID
England is the head and the peo- a
lie OF Canada are subjects, not cit u
ems. Edward VII is the very best is
the House of Hanover. and is in
ltitled to greater respect than any b
lher monarch of his tlme but there b
no real American who would not d
Ike the chances on "Teddy" for four.
even eight or twelve years. in d
reference to spending his life under o.
King, whose successor would be le,
losen, not by the popular voice. but Is
the accident of paternity, which Is N
'metimes perverse. "
The people have not a great sight Isl
say about the Government of Sc
inada. There is a mixture there tf
the French and English traditions
royalty, and a constant line of I"t
betWeen two praat .aya lri