Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-06-18
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More Like America

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More Like America
Only q few years ago CanadiansI
suddenly wakened to find theInselvesl
1 d nation They realized all at oncel
I. that they were making biz history
The twentieth century belongs tol
1 lgsaada, predicted Sir Nilfred LausII
rler. This prediction seems likely ofl1
larger fuialIment than even he him
1self fully realizes Instead Of the Do
Eminion being dependent on the Brit
lish empire the empires most farsee-
Ing statesmen are looking to Canada
for the sinews or imperial strength.
1t is not surprising, therefore, that
what is called The Am mericanization of
Canada. II causing MUCH conc cern,
4 both Ia Canada and Britain.
The Vancouver News-Advertiser|
said the other day: There never
will be another Britain, and Canada
llcould not reproduce any other land
without treason to her own great op-a
portunits to express herself Ia this
ino doubt, the News.Adye ertiser ex-
presses the feeling of the most ini-.
perial province in the Dominion. and.
! d for the time the general sentiment OF
! the country. But what Of the future?
Can we prpphesy with cunflde dence Is
/ there q growth Of q decline Of British
Z feeling?
The enormous inflow On immigr
4 OF every nationality is causing new
Z conditions to appear, and new prob
Z lems demand new II consideration.
. Perhaps all these elements will be In.
! Ispired with q common Canadian pat.
I iotsIsm. But it Is doubtful whether
4 they can be brought to feel devotion
Il Ito stfe empire. 1t is also doubtful
i lEhather they may not clamor for an
S independent Canadian republic.
. In the main the French people read
only the newspapers in their own Ian.
Z guage, The foreign colonies In the
II. West are followed by the publications
3 which they read In the United States
i or in the European countries from
g which they come. So many English
i speaking Americans who have come
!. Ito Canada continue to subscribe fol
u American journals. Moreover, a mul
! tihile of native Canadians read, per
Ehaps by preference, sporting papers
weekly journals and magazines from
. the neighboring country. All the Can
adian daily newspapers give columni
3 Of space to reports of games in til.
D American baseball leagues, and ther,
. Is an international league which EN-
braces Toronto and Montreal. 'rwen
ty years ago 200 or 800 was a large
iattendance at a baseball game at To
tronto. Now from 5000 TO 10000 at
ttend the international contests La
. lcrosse, zone OF the best sports for spet
s : sstators ever devised, barely holds its
Town in the dominion with the nationa
I tgame Of Americans. Thirty years age
IeYery village In oontario had its
cricket club. Now such clubs are TAI
less numerous, and only few hund.
red people attend the most important
slcricket matches.
Il The Canadian correspondent of the
Il London Times has pointed out that
Il the cable news services were design
lied primarily for American consump-
Irion. The truth of this statement has
Ibeen concIusivgly demonstrated In all
i the recent dispatches covering the
I struggle between British liberals and
4 British nnionists over home rule ia
Ireland, describing conditions III M
ster and estimating the state Of feel
ling in Great Britain We have q fur
ther Illustration IN the eruption be.a
tween the United States and Mexico
lover the wires come literally pages
of dispatches following III elaborate
detail the movements of American
troops and vessels. the proceedings in||
congress. the statements Of the prey.I
ident and his advisers and incidents|
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