The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-03-28
Canada's Bogie Man.

Beware of Americans, shun them as
you would the plague, avoid them as you
would something unelean, keep out the
"thin edge of the wedge" look to the
East, and fall down before the idol of
Imperial Preference, for there your al.
legiance is, whether sense dictates diff
| ferently or no. Do everything To "All
| Red" laugh to scorn any offers. be they
Of whatever sort and never so harmless,
yes, even if they be truly beneficial, il
| they come TO you on anything striped
with red and white, or bear the least
trace of blue field with here and there
a white star.
let us preserve our country for our
/ King our children and our Cod This is
! the warning that our good Canadian
neighbors have had hurled at them for
! the past few months from many sides
"The American Peril' to some Canadians
and unfortunately many of them oceu-
| Ply points of vantage from which they
may promulgate their thought, sending
it into fertile minds whose nonsense is
we'll satisfied with the offered nonsense
is more real, or is professed to be more
real, than is the Yellow Peril to our own
| fire-eatiug congressman, Richard Pearson
Hobson, the oft-kissed hero of Santiago.
But the prophets OF dire happenings
are Cassandras born to an age too late
to be of avail, for it is almost uncon.
ceivabe to dream of a Canada more
Americanized than is the Canada of to.
day Putting aside the political union.
how much of Canada is Americana We
ride into the dominion on American cars.
pulled by American engines which, in
| turn, are driven by Americans and forced
along over the irons by American coal.
We alight from the station to hear
american" spoken, even to the slang
phrases which delighted Broadway last
week. when they fell from the lips of
some vaudeville artist who this week is
playing in Toronto and next week will
| "do" Montreal The street car we take
to our hotel like as not was made in an
American shop.
At the mornings meal our orange is
American, the silver is marked "Ghor.
am" the breakfast food wouldn't fool
even an Englishman, while for dinner
our chicken is a Ia Maryland, and If we
be so constituted, we might wash it
down with a little of that that made
Milwaukee famous, And that nothing
may break the chain, the man who takes
your tips in American money stands in
American shoes.
The hotel has American "accommoda-
tions," the telephone girl has that CHEEKY
American "ine's busy" the public stem
ographer chews her American gum, news
papers from New York-which is in
America line up side by side with the
Canadian papers in the reading room
all carrying the same dispatches sent
out by American news services-an
American magazine is at your elbow, at
the theatre you see New York success
and at the close you wonder why the or
chestra is playing such a good old Amer
lean piece as "My Country, It's of Thee"
until at last il dawns upon you that it
isn't what You thought it was-the
words are different: God Save the
King"
American autos smell Of American gas
oline and chauifeuTs puff away at their
American cigarettes. American pianos
send forth their tones, while CHEEKY
voices tear American ragtime TO pieces
And so IL is all the way down the list.
granting Of course that TO rob every arti.
Gle or its "By Special Permission or by
"Royal Warrant would not be fair,
America has invaded Canada-to the
benefit Of each,
'Aiade in America would be mneces-
sary in the dominion.
'SThe thin Of the wedge" Is in and In
as far as Americans Of some generations
to come want il.
But the "Purveyor 70 His Majesty the
King may in some future day pass from
Canada. but only when Canada wants Il.
For Canada there Is no American Peril"
st Adams Messenger.