Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-20
CLORIES IN Grey
Present Official Most Popular
Governor General Canada
Ever Had.
HIS FRIENDS ARE LEGION
Predicts Wonderful Future for Unit
ed States Northern Neighbor
and Wins Applause.

An American friend of Earl Grey
once told him thar the chief fuaction
of a governor general Is 10 Hap his
wings and crow" The governor scner-
al Of Canada might be excused IL now
and then be INDUCED in this exercise.
for during the six years of his Office the
Dominion has advanced by leaps and
bounds.
Earl Grey went TO Canada with re-
Iuctance. He will leave it with regret
when the time comes. Although Earl
Grey has held the post longer than
any of his predecessors except Lord
Dufferin and Lord Mimic. it is almost
certain that he will remain another
year.
OF Earl Grey's popularity in the Do
minion there can be no doubt. Cana
dams delighted in the wit and vivacity
Of Lord Dufferin, they valued the
steadfastneSs of Lord Lorne, they adj
mired the grand seigneur in Lord
Lansdowne and the sportsman in Lord
Mimic. Earl Grey derives his populari-
ty from a combinatio of qualities and
circumstances
Makes and Keeps Friends.
In the Lr., i,.,.., -. - uur OF those
happy mortaiS who make friends with
out an effort and keep them by the
attraction of temperament. 1t is not
given TO every enc TO be on familiar
footing with the citizen ana the eoun-
trynan. I.GrI DU:ierin could be n
piainsmen west O. Winnipeg before
the railway ran TO tie Pacific; he
could groom his oivu LorSc while his
daughter cooked at tie campfire, but
in Ottawa and Montreal To;d Dufferin
was ever the grand scig1cH- and the
''dignified part of tie constitutional
mechanism"
Earl Grey can also be Tie plains
man. He acquired the habit in Rho
desia. where he was 2duia istrator in
1867, at the time OF the Matabele
war. How many Still remember his
afternoon visits TO tho B1lawnyo club
in flannel trousers. SLOUGH hat and
shirt sleeves?
And he carried the ;HSit 70 Cacedn.
where he has visited ,"rcry province
even to faraway DGvHoD C!ty-aud
has been welcomed as cGErsade bJ'
pioneer and farmer. hunter an,i miner.
He can work with them all ani-more
difficult stil!-can talk WITH them --.
No Canadian born las mole assured
faith in the future of his Country chan
Earl Grey. He believes a. arTnly rs
any of them that Canada IS destined
to become the most populous. tbs. most
wealthy and the most important part OF
the British empire. Provided Canada
keeps her Judiciary pure, her politics
clean and her administration honest.
coming the controlling factor IN toe
empire of self governing nations"
Captures observation-disclosures.
In Newfoundland, the oldest and in |
many respects the most conservative |
of the British colonies, his influence |
has been not less benefcent. New |
have habit OF regarding !
Canadians as foreigners and as dis |
loyal" to the British connection. Earl |
Grey has done much TO remove this |
prejudice and to bring nearer the day |
when Newfoundland may G~coIne not |
the least of ten provinces tp ths great |
Dominion.
Earl Grey not only believes bot pro-
claims his belief from the hco aAtops, |
for he knows the value OF Advertising |
even a nation. He has solid frusda-
ton for his faith. He has sean the |
population OF Canada grow iscrl six
to nearly ten millions; he has watched |
two railways creeping across the con-
tinent to make a third lins between |
the Atlantic and Pacific; hc has OBJ
served the tide OF migration hang
ing from the south to the north, and |
the United States returning CRnada's
gift of 100000 sons and Daughters to
the republic. and he has seen barren
plains golden under grain.