Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-08-18
CL0R|ES
IN RULE OF GREY
Most Popular Governor General
In Dominion History.
MAKES AND KEEPS FRIENDS.

Wins Admiration of People From Lab
rador to Dawson City by Predicting
Wonderful Future For United States
Northern Neighbour Great Strides
Made In Sly Years.
An American friend of Earl Grey
once told him that the chief function
Of a governor general is to flap his
wings and crow" The governor gener-
al Of Canada might be excused if now
and then he 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-
luctance. 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 a 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 combination of qualities and
circumstances
Makes and Keeps Friends.
In the first place he is one of those
happy mortals who make friends with
out an effort and keep them by the
attraction of temperament. 1t is not
given to every one to be on familiar
footing with the citizen and the coun-
tryman. Lord Dufferin could be a
plainsmen west of Winnipeg before
the railway ran to the Pacific; he
could groom his own horse while his
daughter cooked at the campfire, but
in Ottawa and Montreal Lord Dufferin
was ever the grand seigneur and the
''dignifed part Of the constitutional
mechanism"
Earl Grey can also be the plains
He acquired the habit in Rho
desia, where he was administrator in
1867, at the time of the Matabele
war. How many still remember his
afternoon visits to the BulaWayo club
in flannel trousers. SLOUGH hat and
shirt sleeves?
And he carried the habit to Canada,
where he has visited every province
ven to faraway Dawson City-and
has been welcomed as a comrade by
pioneer and farmer, hunter and miner.
He can work with them all and-more
difficult still-can talk with them all.
No Canadian born has more assured
faith in the future of his country than
Earl Grey. He believes as firmly as
any of them that Canada is destined
to become the most populous, the most
wealthy and the most important part of
the British empire. "Provi1, ed Canada
keeps her judiciary pure, her politics
clean and her administration honest.
nothing can prevent her one day be-
coming the controlling factor in the
empire of self governing nations
Captures Newt undIanders.
In Newfoundland. the oldest and in
many respects the most conservative
Of the British colonies, his influence
has been not less benefcent. New
foundlanders have a 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 become not
the least of ten provinces in the great
Dominion.
Earl Grey not only believes but pro-
claims his belief from the housetops,
for he knows the value of advertising
even a nation. He has solid founda-
ton for his faith. He has seen the
population Of Canada grow from six
to nearly ten millions; he has watched
two railways creeping across the con-
tinent to make a third link between
the Atlantic and Pacific; he has OBJ
served the tide Of migration chang
ing from the south to the north, and
the United States returning Canada's
gift of 100000 sons and daughters to
the republic. and he has seen barren
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