Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-04-28

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haustible,' for if the same procedure
were to be adopted in respect to tuehf
that we have followed in respect TO
our own forests, ] presume that they
too, might be exhausted. But, fortu-
nately for Canada and for Us, we ana
they have learned much more than we
realized two decades ago with respect
tn the necessity for proper methods OF
forestry and of lumber cutting. Ana
hence we may be safe in saying that
under proper modern methods the tim
Der resources open to us in Canada
may be made inexhaustible, and we
may derive ample supplies of timber
from Canadian sources to the profit or
Canada and for our own benefit.
There are other natural resources
which ! need not stop to enumerate.
which will become available to us as
II our own, if we adopt and maintain
commercial union with Canada: and
this is one of the chief reasons that
ought to command the Canadian agree
ment to the far seeing craftsmanship
| of leaders of American public opinion.
| But there are other-even broader
grounds than this that should lead to
the adoption of this agreement. Cana
| das superficial area is greater than that
Iof the United States between the
oceans. OF course it has a good deal
OF waste land in the Far North, but it
has enormous tracts of unoccupied
land, or land settled so spareely as to
be substantially unoccupied which
within two or three decades will rap
idly acquire substantial and valuable
population. The government is one
entirely controlled by the people, and
the bond uniting the Dominion with
the Mother country is light and al
most impereeptible. There are no re-
strietior1s on the trade or economic de-
veiopment of Canada which viii inter-
fere in the slightest with her carving
out her Independent future. The atti
tude of the people is that of affection
toward the Mother country. and of a
sentimental loyalty toward her royal
head. But for practical purposes the
control exercised from England by
executive or Parliament is imponder-
able
Canada now has between 100000
and 100000 of people. They are a
hearty, temperate, persistent race,
brave, intelligent and enterprising, in
heriting the good qualities of all their
ancestors, and with national pride in
their dominion that grows with the
wonderful success ana prosperity that
have attended them in the last three
decades. They are good neighbours: we
could not have better neighbors. 1t is
more than 100 years since a hostile
shot was fired across the border. and
they are like us because our conditions
are similar, and because our traditions
are similar. They are more restricted
in their immigration laws than we, and
perhaps they grow less rapidly, but
they have before them a wonderful
expansion in population. in agricul-
ture and in business and they offer to
any nation with whom they have SYM
pathetic relations and with whom it is
profitable for them to deal a constantly
increasing market and an ever-in-
creasing trade. f''t
The theory that trade is rot profit
able to one party unless ii is done at
less to the other party, is at the
bottom Of great deal of the economic
fallacies of the past and present
Trade is mutually beneficial. 1t isl
profitable to both parties, for if il
is net it cannot and ought not con-
tinue.
As between Canada and the United
States the trade and the mutual ben
eft from the trade viii increase. 1t |
is amusing and I am not sure that all |
the ouncombe ana all of the exaggera-
ton and Misrepresentation in politics
and all of the political ghosts arc
not confined to our own country and |
that there has entered into the dis |
Canada az nm far.
defeating the adoption of this contract
by the Canadian Parliament. a fear
that we desire to annex the Dominion; |
and the dreams of Americans with
irresponsible imaginations, who like
to talk of the Starry Flags floating
from Panama to the pole. are ex-
hibited by the opponents of the Cana
dian treaty in Canada as the declara-
ton of real policy by this countryl
and as an announcement of our pur-
pose to push political control over our
neighbor of the north.
I am not an contemporaries, but II
have had considera BILE experience IL
the countries over which we have
assumed temporary control. | do not
know when that control will end but
L do know that, i'll respect to those
countries, We have taken OYER heavy
duties and obligations. the weight of
which ought to destroy any tempta-
ton to further acquisition of terri
tory.
1t would be invidious to institute q
comparison between the government
of Canada and this country, but there
is one part of our jurisdiction and that
of Canada that come together suffi-
GENTLY close TO enable the Canadians
and ourselves to realize that the sam
pie OF government that we exhibit is
not alluring. | refer to the control of
Alaska as compared with the control
by Canadians of her northwest terri
tory. The talk of annexation is bosl.
Everyone who knew anything about
it realizes that it is bosh. Canada is
great, strong youth, anxious to test
his muscles, rejoicing in the race he is
ready to run. The United States has
all it can attend to with the territory
it is now governing and to make the
no ell nF tA1 inn of