The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-23
The United States And Canada
By SAvOYARD

There is little room to doubt that g. day will, come when there will be po- litical union of the United States and Canada, butt not by absorption, and Champ Clark and everybody else, even the babe at the breast long ere that will have supped as did old Polonius- not where we eat, but where we are eaten; certain convocation of polite worms will be cen at us. Your worm is your only emperor for diet
 Long after all of us are deadand turned to clay, there will be federation of the Anglo-Saxon peoples, by that time numbering some 3Jo0Oo,000 and more. Physically, mentally, morally, industrial ly, commercially ana financially the race will dominate the world, with many seats of power in both hemispheres, from pole to pole. In addition to the United King dom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States of America, there will be the confederation of those mighty free states Of Canada, South Africa, Aus tfalfa, New Zealand and others with Eng fish law, English speech, English thought, English literature and all bound together, homogeneous and irresistible
 The beginning of this gigantic combi- nation will be a complete commercial union between our republic and the north ern dominion, and the reciprocity convep- tion negotiated for the two in 1911 is the beginning of that absolute commercial union. There will follow trade reciproci- ty with the entire British empire, which, after a. time, will culminate in the politi- cal federation of all peoples who
 Speak the tongue that Shakespeare spake.'
 Such alliance will prove resstless, and having the strongest sword and the long est purse, it will command and maintain the worlds peace.
 Then other Caucasian peoples will seek to shed the cruel shackles that letter trade and they, too, will join the com mercial union, and trade will become free throughout Christendom. If universal peace is to be, here is the road over which 1t will pass and the billions now voted to glut the malice of Moloch will he devoted to the reclamation and con servation of the boundless wildernesses and trackless jungles of Africa and South America. After some score years of such international policies, the worlds larder will grow fat and it's garbage bucket lean. Then in century or two the prophecy of Isaiah 11:4 will be full filled and man begin to be civilized. First rid yourself of the tariff and give your posterity a chance. Look at the republic of America and the United States of the German Empire, in each of which ns- tions there is absolute free trade between the people of different communities. And there is nothing in our own country that surpasses the material advancement of the German empire since Bismarck provided free trade between its various states.
 Suppose this political union between the republic and the Dominion of Canada, so imprudently, if not improvidently, dis cussed by Champ Clark, should come. What a revolution 1t would make in our party politics! Every political platform would be fulsome eulogy of the right little tight little isle.'' Every candidate would love the mother country" and the an Anglo-maniac from skin to marrow and from marrow to skin. We would have the novel and startling preachment of a certain Yankee of the long ago, "Blood is thicker than water.''
 Of course, if this marriage between the United States and Canada should be consummated it will not be an elope- ment. And Mother England will give her cordial assent and devout blessing, and it would be the most profitable and most