The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-03-22

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ness rhouses-in New York, Boston or
Chicago-who imagine that because
they work In the head Office they are
peg above the fellows who are on
the frontier Of tho business, creating
the trade on which the house and ali
It's employees live. They are little
Georges, without their predecessors
excuse. If
Cause Of Revolution.
Your revolution. was because the
stth-necked, English-born German
who sat upon the throne did not real
ize that an Englishman across the
ocean was just as good az he, IL not
better than, the man who stayed at
home; and thst an infant community,
like an infant Individual, grows into
an adult with all the natural rights
and emotions Of an adult. The slow
ness to understand changed conditions
was not peculiar to George III and
his ministers. The. notion Of superi-
ority has not been confined to Eng
ltshmen, living or dead.
Let US take the war of indeperd-
ence for granted. Let me say, with
out affectation, that l glory in the
resistance to George III even as
glory in the magnificent courage, the
sublime patriotism Of Pym and Hamp-
den and Eliot. What, indeed, are the
notes that we're struck on liberty bell
but the reverberations of the strokes
OF Magma Charta, the petition of right
and declaration Of right?
Il have met some. Americans who
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children of Uncle Sam to the sas-
katchewan valley. It's all very well,'
they say. for congested countries,
like England, to lose some of their
citizens. But the United States wants
to get good people, not to get rid of
them. If the United States were as
congested as England is, emigration
to Canada would be all right. But
as things are. no. sir.
Before expound what l believe
to be the true Significance of the emf
grafton of Americans to Manitoba,
Saskatchewan and Alberta, let me try
to lodge three facts in the back Of
your mind, for sweet Scharity's sake:
"The United States has received
more emigrants from, and annihilated
more allegiance to. other countries,
than all the nations of all time.
Nearly three million Canadians
have emigrated to, and multiplied in
the United States, and, in so doing,
have made but little trade for Canada.
LESS than one-haif of one per cent
of the population of the United States
has moved into Canada during the
last ten years, period in which the
foreign trade of the United States has
been increased by Canada far more
than by any other country in the
world.
Think of these things for little;
and then. II you Will, examine with
me the situation created by the Ameri-
can in Canada.
"The American. has done a ve-y
great deal for Canada. Canada has
done q great deal for the American.
There are three Amsricans in west
ern Canada who thiifk that they and
their compatriots haHea made the cOun-
try.
"The truth is, of course, that when
Americans come to western Canada
they don't find it a foreign country at
all. In soil, climate, transportation,
agricultural l. machinery, currency,
social observance, churches-in every
thing except the outward political
forms, the differences which they
thought would be tremendous are only
trivial. In most cases they are in
favor of the adopted land.
There have been many celebra-
tions of the Fourth of July in western
Canada. We view the stars and stripes
fluttering in summer resort breezes,
and other places, with perfect equa-
niminity. We have more respect for
the tenderness of American feeling
than to wish to flaunt the Canadian
flag, or conspicuously to celebrate
Dominion day in the United States.
Its curious to notice in the west
thatsmen and women who began their
life in: Canada by offering the most
fervent homage to the symbol of their
native country, have become less
demonstrative as Fourth of July fol-
lows Fourth of July. They had been
accustomed to hearing and reading
the declaration of independence. with
it's terrible recitation of the offenses
of George III. Some of them grew
up with the idea that England was
and is the home of oppression, still
smarting under the loss of the thir-
teen colonies"