Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-28

sons have already taken advantage of
this opportunity. and the trustee OF the
fund told me that the Winnipeg branch
alone expected to bring in at least LOO
desirable citizens before the end of the
| year.
Work of Famous Phi1anthropist.
1t is gratifying to hear favorable reports
of 'Dr Barnardo's boys That famous
phlanthropist, who devoted his entire
life to picking up street waits in London
and training them to be useful citizens,
sent nearly 1900 boys and girls from
London to Canada, obtaining employment
for the boys as mechanics and farm
| hands, and for the girls as household
servants. Since his death, five years ago,
the work has been continued in the same
manner by an association that retains MS
name 1t has permanent agency at
Toronto. which receives the immigrants
and looks after them faithfully during
the rest of their lives. There is a record
of every boy and girl, showing where they
have lived, what they have done, how
they have behaved and what progress
they have made in sef-advancement. The
proportion of failures is almost insignih-
| cant. A hundred or more out of the
1000 have drfted into the rank of pro-
fessional criminals; two or three hundred
have managed to find their way back to
London and have become submerged In
the slums of that great human maelstrom,
but the derelicts serve only to emphasize
the success. happiness and cOntentment
of the great majority At least % per
cent of the 1900 have developed into use
full citizens and there are several notable
cases of success.
The Canadians take our money at par
almost everywhere like their own. There
is an act of parliament making 1t legal
tender and providing that the British SOW
ereign should be received at equal to
s3O4. the half eagle OF America at the
rate of S. and the gold eagle at SO.
Copies U. s. Currency.
A new currency act. repeating all
previous legislation on the subject, was
passed in 1910. which provides for
currency precisely similar to that of the
United States in silver, gold and bank
notes. and declaring the gold coins of
Great Britain and the United States to
be legal tender and to pass current in the
Dominion for similar amounts.
Therefore it is not necessary for Amer
lean tourists to change the money they
bring with them They can use 1t in
any of the shops or hotels except in the
primitive settlements in the interior
where there are no banking facilities.
Canadian bankers and other business
men are very much aggrleVed however.
because there is no recjprocation on our
part Canadian money is not accepted in
| the United States beyond very narrow
| zone along the border. In Buffalo, De-
| troit, Duluth. st. Paul and Minneapolis
| it passes current, but beyond those cities
| il will not be accepted, and the Cana
dams propose to make formal demand
upon the Congress OF the United States
for the passage Of law similar to that
which makes American money legal ten
der in Canada.
Hostility Toward Americans.
The agitation that has followed the rec
iprocity agreement has increased the in
tensity of this feeling. There is a wide
spread sentiment Of hostility toward
| Americans in eastern Canada and In
| certain financial and business circles ev-
erywhere. It Is feeling Of resentment.
based upon the delusion that we do not
treat Canada fairly. and that the United
States is determined to squeeze the peo-
pie of the Dominion until 1t gets all It
wants out of them. and make as small
return as possible
The annexation delusion is almost uni
versal among the British and native Ca
Although 1t seems SO silly and absurd,
the most highly educated and otherwise
intelligent element of the business COM
munity Is possessed with the idea that
the entire population OF the United States.
including both political parties. with
President Taft as their leader. is en-
gagged in a conspiracy to divorce Can
ada from Great Britain and forcibiy an
mex the western provinces. at least.
have heard business men of large affairs
declare seriously that the large immigra-
ton movement from the United States Is
a part of that conspiracy. and that our
government is sending settlers across
the border to take UP homesteads and
buy land and occupy the towns and the
country so that when the time comes
they can deliver the western provinces
over to the United States.
Regarded as Surrender.
President Schurman of Cornell univer-
sity, who Is Canadian by birth. ridi-
culed these decisions in an after-dinner
speech before the Canadian Club, bust-
ness organization OF Winnipeg, and was
severely criticised for committing an I'M
propriety by bringing political questions
| into social gathering and treating q
serious subject in a flippant manner.
have heard bankers and other business
men say that when Prime Minister Lau-
| rier signed the reciprocity arrangement
with the United States taking the duty
| off Canadian vegetables and American
agricultural machinery he "surrendered