The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-10-12
A YAWPING BRITISHER.

the vancouver lSldHu ueNelOplheu
league. writes to the Mirror why Can
ada refused to accept the arbitration
= treaty which was made between Sec
rotary Knox and President Taft, on
the one side and Premier Lauried' on
the Canadian side.
Just now Canada is having boom
Its railroads have been extended &c
the wheat lands and thousands of men
have gone there, bought those lands
and are at work; and so Canada re-
allies that after all it is a nation, and
naturally, just now Canada has the
biggest case of swelled head on the
globe.
Mr.. McCaffey, who is a very in
tense Canadian, no doubt. gives many
reasons why Canada did not accept
reciprocity. all of which we care moth
ing about But in the course of 1t
there is one sentence that needs a
word of notice. 1t says:
"One fetish of the American peo-
|
is the noblest work of man, but when
a flag loses caste, as the stars and
stripes did in the Philippines, and
when 1t represents dead dreams in
stead of living virtues, it ceases from
its proud estate and becomes more
or less of joke"
In another place this writer SAYS
that the Canadian is British to the
core. With a real liking for the Am
erican with very much OF the Ameri-
cans initiative and energy. he is.
when put to the test, Britisher. and
party affiliations cannot bind him to
anything but the aims. the ideals and
the traditions of the British empire"
That is all right, but in that con.
nection why does the writer, clinging
to the traditions of Great Britain.
speak so slightingly of the American
flag and what was done under the
American flag in the Philippines? The
Americans went to the Philippines to
redeem them from 300 years of such
barbarism as no civilized power in the
world ever perpetrated upon poor
people. 1t went there to stop the rob
blng and enslaylng of the islanders by
Spanish governor generals, which had
been going on steadily for quite
century at least. 1t went there to
build Scbonlhnusac D., ac,ahIt,h ,,,ai.,
and II went with the promise that as
soon as that people could take care OF
themselves they should have the
chance. II did what ii did in Cuba
with the same promise, which has
been fulfilled in Cuba. In what way
was the flag furnished?
And now as to British traditions,
How about the opium trade in China |
That is British tradition. What
right had Great Britain to take In |
India? Where has England ever gone
to a new land in any other guise ex-
cept as bulldozer? How was IL with |
the Beers? How has II been all around
thi searth? What Is there In the ira.
ditions OF Great Britain that this man
clings so tenaciously TO, and vet
sneers at what Admiral Dewey and his |
successors did and are doing in the
Philippines? He says the Canadians
are very fond OF the Americans. Not
his kind OF Canadian. He il a Brit.
isher through and through as Great
Britain was three score years ago.
and has no use In the world for Am.
orleans except he can make some
money out Of them. That he likes
Canadian rule better than the rule OF
the United States is all right, but he
should keep his hand off the American
flag-at least, he should not in the
same article compare what the Amer |
lean flag has oyershadowed so far in |
the world with what has been done |
under the union jack There IL no
poor, oppressed race on earth that
has any complaint against the United |
States. Why. IL Is but very few
years since when, to please the mon
little vlcions, immoral. and with a
little too much OF the blood and
thunder" thrown in. But now, thanks
to a wise censorship, none but uplift
ing subjects are presented to the PEG.
pie Old and young, rich and poor, the
lame and the halt, all can see the
same show for the same amount of
money, Five and ten cent theatres II
properly regulated, and we have them
well regulated here in Logan, are an
up'lft To a community. an educator, in.