The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-10-25
Thrilling Address on
lnternationalislm and
Church by MacD Donald

Grande to Hudson's Bay, from Cape
Breton to California, there is being
created a vast international commun-
ity of interests, Of opportunities and
of obligations, which makes America.
unique among the continents: one in
it's life, one in it's responsibility, and,
one in its message to the world.
Americas Unique Situation.
The most unique fact in the situa-
ton on this continent, unique and
meaningful, Is this fact of two sover-
eigns but one civilizations; two flags
but one people; two governments but
one unbroken frontier line from Mex
leo to the Arctic set unalterably for
the defense of our common North
American inheritance.
This North American situation Is
indeed without parallel In all the
world. You. came, many of you, or
you will return home, by way of Nj
agara, that there you may look upon
Americas greatest exhibit, that won
der Of the world. But Niagara Falls
is not the most wonderful thing
America has to show. On the Fam
best river, Africa could show a high
er waterfall. In Mexico I saw a vast
horseshoe 1,470 feet high, down which
there once tumbled more than a doz-
en- Niagaras. No, Americas wonder
is not Niagara. And Americas great
est achievement is not any of the
things about which we make Jul
loudest boast. But in one thing this
continent is without a peer, without a
parallel: 1900 miles of international
boundary; river and lake and prairie
and mountain, with never a fortress,
never a battleship, never an armed
sentinel on guard. That achievement
of these hundred years Is unmatched
anywhere else in all the world,
Think what that means-that bound
airy made secure only by the inter
civilization and the christian interna-
! tionalism of these two countries
: think what that means. and often as
; you may cross the line and pass the
officials the wonder of it. the world
| significance Of 1t, will never lose its
power.
Two Nations: One People.
Years ago in this city that great
historian and literary man, whose
name gives lustre to this whole con-
tinent. the late Goodwin Smith, was
In the habit of saying that the time
had come for wiping out this interna-
tional dividing line. Other men have
times on the other, that this or that
trade policy would work for political
union on this continent. They think
only on the surface who SO speak.
Tariff or no tariff, reciprocity or no
reciprocity, free trade or no free
trade, the United States and Canada
are two national units. Two in their
distinctive forms Of government they
shall remain. But our English speak
ing peoples are one people. one in the
1000 years of their historic back
ground, one in their inbred passion
for liberty, one in the genius Of their
law, one in the wealth of their liter
ature, one in the foundations Of their
faith, one in the eternal purpose OF
the God Of nations. What God has
joined together let not the petty poll :
tics Of man put asunder.
Does someone ask, why not unite
the two governments in one parlia-
ment or congress Of the continent? %
Sir, there are wider horizons and
more splendid visions even than those
of America. In the defense of Amer
lean civilization and in the mission
of America to the world. these two
nations are more impregnable and
more impressive understheir two flags
than they would be under one
The True international Doctrine.
The true doctrine of international
lxalatiana on this continent ulss S,