The Washington herald., 1910-03-20
Big GAIN IN CANADA
British Defeat Aids Domin-
ion as Well as I. s. A.
MAKES NEW TYPE OF PEOPLE
International Aspect of Settlement
of Northwestern Provinces Pointed
Out by Canadian Northern Off
cfaI-shoyys How American Does
Not Sacrifice Patriotism.

Chicago, Mar. 1s.-That the most fateful
work in national development on the
North American continent is being done
in the prairie provinces OF Western
Canada was the claim made here in
lecture to the University Of Chicago
Sociology Club by Arthur Hawkes., i
Canadian Northern Railway official, on
THE man with two countries"
The Importance of that development in
Manitoba, Saskatchewan. and Alberta,
Mr. Hawkes. said. lay in the certain pro-
duction 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 were being tremend-
ously influenced by the advent Of half
million people from the United States.
To many patriotic Americans It was.
said Mr. Hawkes.. an almost incredible
thing that thousands of their fellow
countrynen 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 a country like Canada. become just
one ingredient among many in the build
ing Up of Canadian nation within the
British Empire.
1.-THE American who went from Illinois
OF Iowa. Nebraska or Minnesota. said
Mr. Hawkes.. improved his financial
position even more than did the earlier
settlers in those states; for he went into
a virgin country of vast extent and I'M
measured fertility, that was served with
the appliances of trade and transporta-
ton. and the amenities Of civilization to
an extent that was quite unknown TO TIE
settler I'm the Mississippi Valley a genera
ton ago.
Mr.. Hawkes. said the settler found, for
instance, provincial governments that
were less than five years old running
telephone departments that helped groups
of farmers to obtain cheap telephone. by
supplying them with poles in place. The
government experimental farms dis
tributed seeding trees, and sent men TO
show the farmer how best to lay out his
groves. Two sections in every township
are school lands; and the government
assists the people in every township con-
tanning ten children to build a school
house and pay a teacher.
Thanks to the Royal Northwest Mount
ed Police. law and order percede set
Element There is no unlimited license
for a drinker of ardent spirits, and lovers
of gun-play are kept below parallel
forty-nine.
when an American with very small
capital reaches country like that and
in seven years Is regularly shipping from
ten TO twenty thousand bushels of wheat
to Port Arthur" said Mr.. Hawkes., "he
finds it easy to understand that if he
swears allegiance to the British crown
he is pledging himself, not TO an oppres-
sive tyranny, but TO a government that
fundamentally. as well as nominally,
lived to execute the will of the people.
It is easy for an American to learn that
not only in Britain, but in all the Britains
beyond the sea, the things for which the
American colonies fought were secured
for all time to ali self-governing British
subjects. The liberties OF which Old
Glory had been TO him the worshipped
symbol. he finds were possessed In noble
measure by his new compatriots.
Indeed, the American in Canada is
like a man who learned that he did not
TO love his mother because he loved
his WIFE, just as an increasing family
means a deepening well Of affection for
them, so the American in Canada who
finds himself 10 be lover OF two coun-
tries instead of one Is a broader and
deeper man than he could have become
In his native State.
THE gain in international goodwill
from the multiplying of communications
between the American and Canadian is
and must enormously in
fuence the relations between the republic
and the empire as the United States ad-
vances more rapidly into the position ii
is destined to occupy AS the whole is
greater than a part, so the English
speaking race is more to the world than
any section OF It. And while there Is
little wisdom in prophecy. It is safe 10
predict that the ultimate effect of the
war of independence viii be more bene-
hcent to the world than could have been
in thousand years by a
victory OF the Georgian theorfes-theories
that were as dead In Canada and In
Britain as they were In the United
States