Arizona republican., 1907-06-10
fN6tAND'S DAUGHTER
 BECOMING tSTRAkGED
Great Changes in the Dominion, as Result Of New Railroads and Set tiers, are Tanning the Sentiment for Annexation te the United States.
lBy Cy Warman)

E.GmOntOH, Alberta. June 2.-tSpec- iai correspondence of The Republican, The growing friendliness between the people of the states and the people of Canada is being viewed with alarm" in England by Englishmen who have never crossed the Atlantic. Anyway" said a Canadian daily, the other day. Root got a warmer well come in Ottawa than Alvestan would find"
 Canadian school teachers go out of their way to tell the children that America is a great country, and Americans great people,
 The British had no business in South Africa" said little boy to me yesterday.
 Who told you that?" I asked. and the little boy, who goes to a Canadian school. answered My teacher"
 found, by further questioning. that he had beentold the Boers were little people. patient, plodding. but in the way. and so the British had arrogantly rubbed them out. And this picture he had from a native Canadian teacher. Native born Canadians do not like the English. Scotch Canadians refer to themselves. half in jest. but more than half in earnest. as superior British" The French and the Irish positively dislike them. only the most heroic English settlers survive the three years necessar, to prove up on a homestead in the northwest.
 Times change and our preiudices pass with the passing years" said a leading lawyer, and a K. c. My peo- ple were L.. F. Loyalists and I'm an anneXatiOnist. or would he if there was any hope of annexation"
 Why" I asked. for the annexation ist is a rare bird in Canada today oh" he answered wearily. the Brit ish are such bloomin' blunderers. They blundered below the Line and they are laundering here. They fail utterly to understand Canada, and their nervous chatter about the AmericaniZation of the Canadian West makes them ridic- ulous. Moreover" he continued. ''H. R. H. is out of place on this continent, as much so as a fish ashore"
 Precisely as a big boy. coming of age. longs to cut loose from the old folks. to try it alone, to be his own boss and boss his own jobs. doth this Dominion of Canada, merging into manhood, as it were. fret to be free from England. to run up a banner of its own and to blossom out as a ma tion. Some millions of Canadians know this. thousands will admit it.. hundreds have"
 This feeling has been growing stead fly for ten years. Naturally, Canada can never become a kingdom. so there k a dream in the working hours of present statesmen. of a republic fash toned after that of Switzerland. The American republic, once so naughty and arrogant when dealing with Can ada, is coming more and more to re- spect the big men of the Dominion. Canadian papers are full of nice things about America and Americans. The governor of Kingston was more se- verely criticized above than he was below the border.
 Serious statesmen in England know the Dominion is drifting. and every little while something happens to em- phasiZe the fact that she is not drift ing from the United States-little things like the speech last year of the Hon. Joseph H. Choate to the Canada club at Ottawa, and the more recent and vastly more important, visit of Mir. Root. Lord Grey goes to New York. the minister Of justice and his wife go to dine at the White House to meet the American Supreme Court. But more than all these little eXchang- ed calls and the constant stream of sturdy Americans to the Canadian west has helped to convince Canadians that there is. after all, little differ ence between the people of the repub- lie and the people of the great col ony. The see these Americans coming in. settling down. sowing and reaping and rejoicing in the almost unprece- dented prosperity, accepting things as they are. respecting the laws of the land and the customs of the country: Tn 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 to Cana da-a desire to better their condition. This steady stream that still flows across the New England frontier. sweeps through the Middle West and back into Canada. east of the Rockies. Is the great mixer that is slowly but surely making of Americans and Cana dians one people.
 The men who are steering the ship Of state are heading for the open sea