The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-07
CANADA GAINS
IS ASSERTED
PRACTICAL BENEFITS OF REvo-
LUTON ARE OBVIOUS IN DO
MINfON PROVINCE.
CANADIAN NORTHERN OFFICIAL
POINTS OUT THE INTERNAL
TIONAL POPULATION.

CHICAGO, Feb. 6.-(Special.) THAT
the most fateful work n national de-
velopment on the North American con-
tinent is being done in the prairie
provinces of Western Canada was the
claim made here today in lecture
to the University of Chicago Sociology
club by Arthus Hawkes., a Canadian
Northern Railway official, on ''The Man
With Two Countries" The Importance
OF that development in Manitoba, Sas-
katchewan and Alberta, Mr.. Hawkes.
said, lay in the certain production OF
a distinct type of people, and in an
equally certain effect upon the relations
of the three leading English-speaking
peoples The potential results in both
directions We're being tremendously in
fiuenced by the advent of half mil
lion people from the United States.
To many patriotic Americans it was,
said Mr.. Hawkes., an almost incredible
thing that thousands of their fellow
countrymen should be taking the oath
of allegiance to King Edward Until
they calmly discussed the matter they
could not conceive how the American
spirit, which was the American people,
could, in country like Canada, be-
come just one ingredient among many
in the building up of a Canadian ma
ton within the British empire.
The American who went from Il
linOis or Iowa, Nebraska or Minnesota,
said Mr.. Hawkes., improved his fl
nancial condition even more than did
the earlier settlers in those states; for
he went into a virgin country Of vast
extent and unmeasured fertility, that
was served with the appliances of trade
and transportation, and the amenities
of civilization to an extent that was
quite unknown to the settler in the
Mississippi valley a generation ago.
Mr.. Hawkes. said the settler found, for
instance, provincial governments that
We're less than five years old running
telephone departments that helped
groupes of farmers to obtain cheap
telephone, by supplying them with
poles in place. The government ex-
perimental farms distributing seeding
trees, and sent men to show the far
mer how best to lay out his groves.
Two sections in every township are
school lands and the government as
sists the people in every township
containing ten children to build a
school house and pay a teacher.
Thanks to the Royal Northwest Noun
ed police, law and order precede SEN
timent. There is no unlimited license
or a drinker of ardent spirits, and low
ers of gun play are kept below parallel
forty nine
When an American with very small
capital reaches country like that and
n seven years is regularly shipping
from ten to twenty thousand bushels
of wheat to Port Arthur" said Mr.
/ Hawkes., "he finds it easy to under
stand that if he sWears allegiance to
he British Crown he is pledging him
self, not to an oppressive Tyranny but
to a government that fundamentally
as well as nominally lived to execute
the will of the people. 1t is easy for
an American to learn that not only is
Britain, but in all the Britains beyond
the seas, the things for which the
American colonies fought were Sc
cured for all time to all self-govern-
ing, British subjects. The liberties OF
which Old Glory had been to him the
Worshipped symbol, he finds were pos
sessed in noble measure by his new
icOmpatriots.
| Indeed, the American in Canada is
like man who learned that he die
not cease to love his mother because
he loved his wife. Just as an increas-
ing family means a deepening we'll OF
affection for them, so the American
in Canada who finds himself to be q
lover of two countries instead of one
is broader and deeper man than he
could have become in his native state
The gain in international goodwill
from the multiplying of communica
tons between the American and the
Canadian is incalcuable and must en-
ormously influence the relations be.
tween the Republic and the Empire a.
the United States advances more rap
ldiy into the position it is destined
TO occupy AS the whole is greater
than d part, so the English speakins
race is more to the world than any
section of it. And, while there is lit
Tie wisdom in prophecy it is safe tc
predict that the ultimate effect of the
war of independence will be more be.
nencent to the world than could have
been accomplished in a thousand wears
oy victory of the Georgian theories
theories that We're as dead in Can.
ada and in Britain as they were il
the United States"
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