New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-26
A BECLOUDED ISSUE
Writer Sees in Canada's Vote a Need
less Expression of Principle.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: One Alpheus Hardy Of Boston, While
cutting coupons with scissors. let the III
strument drop on his leg, and blood poison
ing ensued. II may have been an uhusu-
ally delightful death. but life Is pleasant
by American ingenuity and our tendency
to betterment. since we get them by rttle
square laid on gently and with pull. Oh-
doubtedly in cutting the border OF our
Canadian relations there was, from the
nature of things and human nature, TOO
much scissoring.
His son, Alpheus Hardy, jr., is the au'
thor of a very precise work, THE YER
balist," on words misunderstood and inter
changed, and in It is: Love and Like
These are often misused. Men love 1e"
things-theIr wives, their country, patriot
ISM Justice. Women love most everything,
but the thing woman loves most IS taily'
1t was no doubt the appeal TO the oaslc
love Of men for their country and patriot
ism that won out in Canada, and that our
Lady Of the Shows is presumably moro
frigid and less susceptible than the gem
crafty of her sex: but II was misunder-
stood, and the campaign was TOO snort
The summer man is not photographer
he gets only neGatives-anG Canada mis-
took reciprocity" for union and that
we would steal her face, that she was 10
become Of the United States.
In this valley-the gift or the first Con-
gress to my ancestors for distinguished
service and suffering in the War OF the
Revolution-you will find the American
people There has been no immigration
since. and the graveyards tell the story
Here is the ark Of the covenant the ldilh
OF the fathers, and it Is the breeding
ground Of American men and women. Inc
great Omniscient. Whom even the gram OIL
mustard seed does not escape, mas pro-
vided there be no occupation here-thdI
they may go out and leaven the lump that
the nation and the Constitution be pre-
served-and they are akin and similar 70
the peoples of his majesty's dominions
over the seas" "The Cousins is what we
call our society here, and II is the incest
possible relationship; and 1t was just
"cousinship' we were seeking With can
ada. as It was she was seeking a score or
years ago, and It is not our turn 10 De
abashed
would felicitate The Tribune on It's edl-
toriaI Of Contender %, Canada REFUSES
II IS the proper attitude. vt will be turn
md turn about. II will come. And should
not he surprised II the Conservatives them
selves having won place and being re-
sponsible. should embrace this again-thelr
historic policy
Under the lash OF a PRONUNCIATION IN tne
picturesque brutality of a Kipling that the
ninety would overwhelm the nine, What
they voted was to keep the FOUNDERS IN
society. in finance, In business and IN poll
tics over the boundary, mlstaking the acts
If our Bonnie Willie" who was only
nIaving hands across the border-only
seeking 10 connect our Lady Of the Shows
with Miss Snow-and facilitate mutual
transport, and under the glamour OF roy
sltv and with a heritage Of loyalty they
voted for king George VS.. Taft, which
was not the issue, and could he nave gone
over the border in circuit, as he Is no"
with rs. they would better have appre-
bended the nicely Of his Judgment and the
good fellowship-only offered-of which ne
Is a prince, and become aware the lore
front American is cousin at least to any
n.,.is,,or UNION JACK.
Butternuts. n. Y, Sept. %, 1911