Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-29
WOULD Be AMERICAN
Canadian Sees Dominion and
United States United.
NORTH AMERICAN EMPIRE
Pictures Vast Influences and Power
of a Probable Nation.
EACH NEEDS OTHER, HE SAYS
81. D. Richardson Thinks Joint Gov
eminent Likely to Be Some
Day Realized.
EACH NEEDS OTHER, HE SAY

LONDON, September 29.-''Considering
that am an English subject. IT is rather
hard to be treated as rank outsider"
Harold H. Richardson said this in a
burst of temper at the Carlton Hotel yes
terday afternoon.
While Mr. Richardson is for Toronto by
birth and inclination, he Is for the United
States by tendency. London has not
changed his feelings, although he lives
here
II am treated in London just as though
l were a voter in the United States and
not a subject of his gracious majesty.
King Edward. Now. what is the use of
being an English subject If you receive
no consideration? / am called an Ameri-
can. and think l would be better off to
be one.
'.If we Canadians all Joined you Ameri-
cans there would be something doing IN
the North American continent and the
English government would sit up and take
notice
There will be- said Mr.. Richardson,
'.onc great country In the world. and that
will be the United States of North
America. The United States already Is
dominant in the worlds politics. but the
United States Of North America will be
the boss OF 1t all.
Has Overlooked Canada.
Canada is an empire that England has
overlooked. England lost Australia by
peanut politics, and it has almost lost
Canada which is much better in my esti-
nation. In that tremendous country in
the northeast Of Canada where the snow
rarely flies and hard times are unknown
the British empire has missed a large
trick and ] am free to say that II should
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belong 10 the Chlteu o'dleS anu "o' "
England.
England does not appreciate what a
gem it has there, but I think the United
States does. and when this magnificent
country of Canada. which can house all
the people of the world and the United
States get together and can form ma
ton of their own it will make Germany
and Russia and France look very sick.
The territorial expansion which Can
ada offers for the overflow population of
England or Germany or Russia is much
greater than the United States can offer.
and that is saying whole lot, because
the United States has been the dumping
ground for the overflow and refuse of
many nations for the last hundred years.
Sees Great Combination.
with this combination of territory and
people, no matter what politics is in the
United States, this tremendous tract of
Canada and the tremendous virility of the
United States, there would be no stop
ping Of it by the puny monarchies of
Europe.
England. our mother country, is al
most having nightmares because she let
Australia get loose and she may probably
regret Canada quite much. l think
she will regret it more. However. all
Canadians, as far as l know, and all
Americans agree with me that the unfit
cation of the continent Of North America
would be an empire making idea that
none could object to. not for the prOS
mitigation of Napoleon. but for the
PRONUNCIATION OF the best interests of the
people.
I'VE from across the water are as
strangers TO our mother country; whether
we come from the land south of Hudson
bay or north from the Strait Of Magellan.
1t is the same from the two continents
of North and South America. whose in
habitants are unwelcome from North
America to England and from South
America to Spain.
Great Territorial Extent.
while the United States, with its east
ern possessions, now almost reaches half
way around the world, it will. when Can
ada joins it. reach from the Rio Grande
to the Hudson bay, and that will be far
north enough and far south enough to
suit most any one. Let us leave Mexico
for further consideration.
Certainly, in my estimation. Canada
and the United States should be under
one government. one language. one am
! bition and one hope. 1t will be a coun-
try that nothing can beat.