El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-02-15
MAKING FRIENDS
OF CANADIAN PEOPLE
Continued From Previous Page1

going to Canada, however, are nearly
| all farmers who are attracted by the
| cheap virgin land of the northwest 1t
| Is said on good authority that the 1875
| 600 American emigrants 10 Canada last
1 year took with them an average of ST.
600 each-a total of s125, 0e0, 600.
Even if this is cut in ha1f, for the
| sake OF. conservatism the American
! immigrants numbering 125 600 last vear
! took into Canada S62,5OO, 600; while only
! $50, 100000 was brought into the United
| States in 1910 by more than a million
| immigrants received from all countries
Our emigrants take from us at least
! $500 each, our immigrants bring to us
an average of $40 each. Certainly Can
ada has the advantage here.
VIII Amerieanize Cnnada.
OF course, this tremendous Tide of
American blood will make western
Canada, American in it's social cnar-
acteristfcs. Some men on this side Of
the line have professed ACCOMPLISHMENT
that Canada would continue to encour-
age the American settlers in view Of
this certain result. The answer is to
be found in the fact that Canada is
already American in social char1cteris-
tics Even the French province of
Quebec is more American than it is
either French or English. There are
local differences of course. South Car
DINA and Ontario. Louisiana and Que
bee. Maine and Nova Scotia, Nebraska
and Manitoba, Oregon and British CO.
lumbia-they are all different but they
are not different in the sense that New
York differs from York or New Or
leans from Orleans. Canada is New
World in spirit as well as in geoGra-
ply. The Canadians are entitled 10 re-
cover damages from US because we
have pre-empted the adjective Amer
lean"
The Canadians are just ike the geo
pie south Of their border line in the es-
sential democracy of their social strue-
ture. They still use two languages, but
then the French never did forget their
mother tongue easily-there is New Or
leans as our object lesson. They differ
in religion as we do. but they are much
more puritanical than any Europeans,
just as we are
American BusiueSs Methods.
The Canadians 90 business in the
American, not the British, fashion.
They ride in railroad trains like ours,
use the telephone as we 90, are ire
mendously alive to the Importance Of
doing something to boost their country
in short the whole spicit of the country
is the same as ours and utterly differ
ent from that of &ngIan1. Thev som~-
times affect to be more honest than we
are, but there are graft scandals, trust
wars, railroad rate disputes and labor
troubles over the line in the dominion
as well as in the republic. Some cf
these troublesome things they appear to
handle to better advantage than we
do, but that may be due N part to the .
fact that the Canadian population is
smaller and the percentage of successes
may seem TO be greater than it really
is.
Without saying which is better, for
each has manifest advantages over the
other, it remains a fact that in the form
of government and in all sorts If polIt-
zeal activities, the Initial States and
Canada are entirely different. Now
that American relations win Carada
have become q question of major i'm
portance in our domestic politics, every
American citizen ought to know some
thing about how the government across
the border is conducted
Tomorrow-The Statesmen of Canada.