Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-15

glance to the king and their names on the
DOCKS of the British. consulate for dec
ades and decades. while Irish and Scotch
and Canadians become naturalized citizens
at once on their arrival in America. 1t
used to be hard to understand We Amer
lcans didn't see why the Englishman
should carry his absurd patriotism SO far.
And tie Englishman. In his stolid way,
had nothing but contempt "o- the Scot
and the others who quickly changed
the kings protection for the privilege of
Young III elections in a place where the
vote might not be counted after ALL We
used to think the Englishman stupid. but
noW-hOw does it feel to see a hundred
thousand native-born Americans becom-
shoe is on the other foot, and we are be-
coming. in small way, an emigrating
people.
On the other hand. The United States
migration Of
Loses $1,000 about $1,000
People Annually. h hvp nea'E yoar1
Canada sent us every year great num-
Der of her young men. who sought the
wider opportunities offered by the rap
idly developing republic. These young
men are still coming. but not in such
dams now coming to the United States
are mill operatives and other laborers.
The Americans going into Canada, how
ever. are nearly all farmers who are at
tracted by the cheap virgin land Of the
northwest It is said on good authority
that the 125,d1O American immigrants to
canada last year took with them an aver
age of $1,000 each-a total of $125,OOO,OOO!
Even If this Is cut IN half. for the sake
OF conservatism. the American immi-
grants. numbering 12aGOo, last year took
into Canada So 100000: while only $50
10000 was brought into the United States
in 1910 by more than a million imm-
grants received from all countries. Our
emigrants take from us at least $500
each. ours immigrants bring to us an
average of $50 each. Certainly Canada
has the advantage here. OF course, this
tremendous tide of American blood will
make western Canada American in its
social chara cteristics. Some men on this
side of the line have protested astonish
ment that Canada would continue to en-
courage the American settlers in view
OF this certain result.
The answer is to be found in the fact
that Canada is already American in So
cal charac-
New World in teristics.
Spirit and Geography. French prov
ince Of Quebec is more American than it
is either French or English. There are
local differences. of course. South Caro-
lima and Ontario, Louisiana and Quebec.
Maine and Nova Scotia, Nebraska and
Manitoba, Oregon and British Columbia
they are all different but they are not
different in the sense that New York
differs from York, or New Orleans from
Orleans. Canada is new world in spirit
as well as in geography The Canadians
are entitled to recover, damages from us
because we have pre-empted the adjec-
tive "American.
The Canadians arc just like the people
south of their border line in the essential
democracy Of their social structure. They
still use two languages. but then the
French never did forget their mother
tongue easily-there is New Orleans as
our object lesson. They differ in re-
iigion as we do. but they are much more
pul'itanical than any Europeans just as
we are.
4 The Canadians do business in the
American. not the British fashion. They
ride in railroad trains like ours use the
telephone as We do. are tremendously
alive to the Importance of doing some
thing to boost their country-in short, the
whole spirit Of the country is the same
as ours and utterly different from that
of England.