The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-07-24

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grafton, or of the progress of the
country, to detect the strong and in
Icreasing influence Of the American
invasion on the surface and in the
heart of Western life. The press.
for example, is American in form
and matter, from its leading politi-
cal article to it's sporting paragraphs,
written in the curious slang affect
ed by the American sporting world.
Even its cable news is chiefly sup
piled through New York by the
American Associated Press, while its
domestic and comic supplements are
furnished almost exclusively by
Yankee press syndicate controlled by
an Anglophobe, William Randolph
Hearst. American books and peri
odicals form the staple reading mat
ter. American currency is in gen.
leral circulation. The hotels are but
a copy-as a rule, poor one-of
the hotels of the American west. The
clothes worn and the way they are
put on slavishly reflect the fashions
of the southern neighbor. The ac-l
cepted humor is what is called Amer
lean humor. Baseball and trotting
races are prominent among popular
sports; while cricket and Rugby foot
ball, the ball games of the empire,
find little favor even in schools and
colleges. Billiards in the west mean
American billiards. Drinks, from
ice water to the complex cocktail, are
American; so are the universal do
chewing of peanuts. In general
commerce the cloven hoof is equally
noticeable, such as in the wild spec
ulation in real estate and produce,
by which the two great assets of
Western Canada are made the med
ium of excessive and almost univers-
al gambling. This Ubiquitous system
may be cheap way of advertising
the country, but it is also one
which threatens the moral as well as
the material welfare of the people,
for even the farming community
seem unable to resist the blandish-
lments of the real estate broker, who
may be found in every railside vii
lage."
The only salvation for Canada, we
are told, rests upon her cultivation of
imperialism, for "Canada's hope in
the future, as much as her strength
today, rests upon her imperial birth
right, and upon the maintenance
and further enforcement of her i'm
Iperial connection. Break the ties,
land her prospects are at once threat
ened by internal differences; with
her great neighbor on the watch for
the then inevitable opportunity to
seize the coveted wealth of the west
IN palms."
Til spirit and institutions of i'm
perialism can only be strengthened
and kept alive in Canada by encour-
aging the immigration of British
subjects and making it transatlan-
tic England. Thus "Ignotus" OBJ
serves:
"To invite all and sundry and Of
fer them uniformly attractions and
advantages, may have been in the
first instance necessary to stimulate
a movement; but now, when its OBJ
lject has been achieved, its virtue
has ceased. 1t is manifest that the
time for discrimination has arrived.
1t must be asked whether these
hordes of American and cosmopOli-
tans are likely to produce sound fac
tors in Imperial-Canadian growth, or
add their measure to its menace. Is
it better statecraft to fill the land
with alert alienism in a few years,
or to populate it in as many or a
few more decades with British sett-
ler's and their natural increase?
Would it not be sound statecraft to
Preserve the balance Of government
LAND for immigration from the home
land; and then to abandon activities
in the United States AMI the CONT
Inent, and devote all the funds set
apart for immigration purposes to-
ward increasing the volume of Bril-
fish immigration?
1t is impossible for Canada to ever
lsays this writer, and he continues:
Il must unavO1dably conclude That
the idea of Canada as nation today
is sheer nonsense; AMI that the pro-
liability of independent nationhood
at any time is but dream of what,
if the moment of awakening be de-
ferred, must prove to be disruption.
Canada's choice of destiny lies be-
tween Imperialism and chaos.
''If this be given the definite recog-
milton which it demands, and If the
cultureof imperial sentiment and
the adoption of a deliberate imperial
policy foster the growth of Canada
nationhood within the empire, then
the prospect becomes hopeful. With
a common sentiment and definite
common purpose to bind it economi-
; cally, we can conceive it possible
that the dominion as part of the