Evening star., 1915-06-27

dispatch from Ottawa announces
that Canada will soon have 10000
mon with the
canadian Forces colorz. This esti-
With the Colors. mate; ,a =, ACCORDING . oarras
spondent is based upon those who
have been sent to the front. those on
the ocean. those on guard at arsenals
and other military plants. those in the
Dominion's nine training camps and
those IN garrisons in Bermuda and St
Lucia.
A French writer has recently studied
Canada's spirit Of loyalty to the crown
| In order to show the deception expert
enced by Ensland's enemiea who count
| ed upon the failure of the colonies to
| respond to the call OF the crown to
support 1t in the present war The
| subject has a special interest to the
student of political history, not only
because Of Canada's mixed races and
many religions. but because the partic-
ipation Of the Dominion in the war
| will undoubtedly cause important
| notifications In the constitution of the
| will have collaborated in the defense
| in the council OF state.
It has not passed unnoticed by the
French writer that in December, 1914.
Premier Borden declared: TT is impos-
sible to believe that the state Of actual
things in all that concerns the direc-
tion of foreign policy and the relations
extra-imperial can exist as 1t Is to-
day"
And Mr.. Doherty, minister Of Justice
at Toronto, in q public address said:
This war Is not only Eneland's war,
| 1t is the war OF the empire.
THE voluntary and spontaneous par
ticipation of Canada in the war has
| regulated absolutely and for all time
| Canada's situation. which has passed
| from that of a protected colony to that
of a participating nation. The pro-
| tected colony had no deliberative voice
A participating nation cannot remain
| in that condition. The hand that bran
| dishes the sword of the empire holds
| the scepter Of the empire. So long as
| the mother country carried the SWORD
| she held the scepter, and 1t was just
Now that nations of the empire also
carry the sword they should necessarily
| partake of the sovereignty"
| Canada thus automatically may pass
| from the condition of colony to that of
| kingdom. The details of this unan-
| nounced evolution are instructive and
| interesting.
The last days of July, 1914, in Canada
as in all civilized countries, were days
| of uncertainty and dis
| Anxiety a quiet. Among the Fran
co-Canadian population
AeoA @A6o' the anxiety recalled that
OF 1870; the Official English news was
elittle calculated to calm the emotion
the British appeared to hesitate to sus-
tain their allies, and many feared a rep
etition of what happened forty-four
| years before.
| But little by little anxiety gave place
| to bellicose ardor. Manifestations oc-
| Cured in the principal cities. At Mon
treal, which is the most populous of the
Dominion's cities, the public sang (Au-
| gust - The Marseillaise," God Save
the King" and the hymn. 20 Canada.
! while columns of the populace marched
| through the streets with the tri-coloI
| flag and the Union Jack.
| These popular manifestations were
the more singular on account OF the
extremely complicated interior situa-
ton, diversity of races, diversity OF re-
lligions and ardent conflicts of par
ties The diversity of races and Ian
| guages will be best understood by re-
calling that the Dominion covers
6,037,125 square miles, or about nine
| tenths of the extent of Europe. but 1t
is still sparsely populated, excepting
| the region from the great lakes to the
| Atlantic along the st. Lawrence. The
census of 1911 gave the population as
7,206.643 Inhabitants. Now in these
7,000,0 900 there are found representa-
tives in compact groups of eight to
nine distinct races. Besides Canadian
| English. Canadian-F French and Indians
there are great numbers of Germans.
Austro- Hungarians, Russians, Holland
ers. Swedes and Norwegians, Poles
and Italians. immigration has taken
these latter years an extraordinary
development. The government encour-
ages this by all possible means: by a
skillful and persistent advertisement.
by the installation CT Canadian offices
| In the great capitals of Europe (except
Paris). by the sending Of agents to the
United States, the organization of
| steamer lines, and 1t is on the cereal
lands at the foot Of the Rockies that
it pours its wave Of immigrants. From
1895 to 1913 the number of the arrivals
passed from 10000 to 100000: the
greatest electives are furnished by
Great Britain. the United States, Rus
sia, Austro- Hungary and Italy.
But among the races which inhab bit
the Dominion two dominate; on the
one hand. the
Descendants of English, posses
French Settlers. s try siuc. IN, 'a1 ths euua u'ia
die of the eighteenth century, which, If
united in the same group-English
Scotch and Irish-forms a contingent
of more than three and one-half mill
lions; on the other hand, the Canadian
French run over two millions. Thus
nearly a third of the population is
constituted by the descendants of the
French, who discovered Canada with
the Breton, Jacques Cartier. in 1886.
In ceasing. in 1859. from being sub
jects of the King of France the Cana
| dian .colonists nevertheless would re-
| main French at heart In the country
| which they had named New France.
| Their powerful vitality had resisted all
| efforts at assimilation and absorption.
They remained immovably faithful to
their religious faith, to their language
and to their intimate sentiments toward
the country of their ancestors. They
obey Loyalty the Britannia government.
but they applaud French success. sym
pathize with her misfortuneS and have
shown always the greatest kind feel
ing while deploring the anti-clericai