The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-02

II was at your own Liberty Poin-"
mat stand first was made. then
cherish that spot and set up there
stone Of remembrance. The
thing done there by your forefathers
was done not for themselves alone,
but for You, and fot all the peoples
OF the British breed, and for US. too.
IN Canada, who in our time added to
1t a second thing of equal import { q
of equal world significance.
Canada's Lesson.
Canada'S history does not contra
diet the Declaration If Independence:
1t confirms it. When in the Nine
teenth Century the time came for
Canada TO set up house the lesson Of
the American Revolution had not to
be taught. The Fathers of Canadian
Confederation began where the Fa-
Tiers Of American Independence left
off. The British North America act
granted the confederation of the Can
adam Provinces, and is the charter of
Canada's National autonomy. In
granting that charter British separ-
alton for Canada. Beaconsfeld
thought so, and so thought Gladsto G.
But neither of them saw any remedy.
canada demanded it, and, even
though it might mean separation. it
had to be granted. The lesson of the
AoloiItS Ildd 10 Dc duSilI
Britain but once. No other mother
of colonies has even yet earned that
lesson.
Canada and Empire.
h granting of national self-gov-
eminent to Canada instead of involv-
ing a new separation prevented it. 1t
did mean democracy, ever larger =
mocracy than independence has vet
brought to the United States. And the
Self-gOvernment of Canada did in
volve the reorganization Of the British
Empire. 1t started Canada on the
hlghroad to n~ationhood without Sc
vering the tie of Empire. Today Can
ada's standing is rightly described by
the Imperial Kipling:
"Daughter am | in my mothers house
But mistress in my own;
and Canada's national self-govern-
ment became Australia's, then New
Zealand's, then South Africa's. Thar
is the new meaning of Britannia I'm.
perialism. 1t is no longer Empire. i
is no longer the old centralized i'm.
perium with its subject states. 1t il
Alliance. 1t is the vital alliance O
free nations loyal to one throne, en-.
circling the world with one flag, ant
holding in peace and in mutual co
operation O~ne-Quarter of the entir,
land Of the globe.
And that unprecedented world
changing tn 6 wrought in Canada
history in the 18th century-the win
ming of national self-government with
out severing the historic tie-is tn,
cOrOllary and natural consequent O
the winning Of self-government, eve
at the cost Of separation, achieved b
the American Colonies. In the 1St1
century. And who can tell as
Canadian would rejoice-who can tel
but hat in the Goth century the Phil
ippines and other isolated communitie
may learn from Canada's experiment
If their peoples manifest the instino
and capacity for self-government, the
may follow Canada's lead, and com
to nationhood, not through dangerou
isolation in the far Pacific, but as fire
republics in alliance with the Unite
States and under the Stars and Stripe,
AS a Canadian, | would hail the CON
ing Of hat day.
"The Sea-divided Gael"
It may be that in choosing me t
be your president you thought not {
the large problems Of i~nternations
relations, but Of those more intimat
| and more mystic bonds which
5 through the generations and the WORT
round, hold together all those of tn
: Scottish blood. After Culloden, you
, ancestors and mine may have crosse
2 the Atlantic in the same sailing vesse
and after the Revolution their de.
pendants may have been separated
] the Wilderness of the information:
: boundary and the animOsities war a
ways creates. But, once more, it
true
S THAT, after Last, returns the First.
d Though q wide compass round /
e fetched;"
and though you, through the gener;
+ tons, may have lost the Scottish a.
cent from the voice, you have not 10
n the Scottish pride from the heart
S the Scottish passion from the bloc
f The very existence of this ScOttis
v Society of America, and of this SEQ
s fish community extending over nea
: ly a dozen counties and into a ha
= dozen states. was almost unknown
Scottish centres in Canada and in Bri
ain. indeed. [ could name on Il
{ fingers of one hand the Canad MS
Y have met who. prior to the public
J. ton of my own sketch, when Flo
J. Macdonald was in AMERICA in T
n Christmas Globe for 1913, had Il
.e slightest knowledge that the Preserv