Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-09

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over. we must also be prepared in the
colonies for a vast alien population.
who will turn their faces toward our
doors. As long AS these people are
healthy. industrious and capable OF
making their way, you may be certain
that the overseas dominions Will well
come them. If British traditions and
British civilization are to continue in
the future-and. one might almost add
if the British language is to continue
in the future-then it is essential that
you have a successful British people
wherever the British flag flies.
This fear of being swampeh by an
alien. and possibly an enemy alien. pom
ulation is present to all the colonies. 1t
is disclosing nj secret to say that the
strong German populations of Austria
liza and Canada have given both of
those dominions serious concern since
the start of the war. and this feeling OF
insecurity will be tremendously inten-
sifed if, after the war, British immi-
grafton does not more than keep pace
with the arrivals from other European
countries.
While probably the various schemes
now being considered and taking ten
tative shane in the colonies will not
be definitely worked out and adopted
until the end of the war is in sight, il
is possible to give a very accurate AND
interesting forecast of some of the
more important. Naturally the various
big shipping companies will be active,
hSDetlaliA lnoSt allleu Will tue 'iI
dian transcontinental railways. anxious
as they are to people as quickly as
possible the country bordering. the
thousands of miles of shining steel that
stretch from the Atlantic to the Pa
cifc. But it is not in these efforts that
the chief interest lies.
The Canadian government has al
ready appointed a committee to eN-
anime the whole question of postwar
immigration and that committee is now
sitting. Four years the Canadian
government sent an expert to Europe
to study at close grips the people on
this side of the Atlantic and their de-
STABILITY as settlers in the Dominion.
soon after that visit it was understood
that the Dominion authorities were
anxious to cooperate with the govern
ments of the other s~elf-governing Brit
ish states in order to formulate a gem
eral scheme and to prevent overlap
ping. 1t is likely that before the war
is finished some such central manage
ment. controlled. perhaps, by a COM
mittee working in London in consulta-
ton with the home government. will
be proposed.
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SO far as settlement in Canada is
concerned. although there is likely to
be keen competition the vari-
Gus provinces, there is an especially
strong body not only in Canada. but in
this country as well, in favor of con-
centration in favor of the coastal coun-
tries. II is felt that the British i'm
migrant will be best fitted for the land
bordering upon the Atlantic and the
Pacific, and il is thought, as well. that
if the racial element in control of the
seaboards of the Dominion is British it
need never fear the exact racial COM
plexion of the inhabitants of the in
terror.
Especially anxious is this body of
public opinion to settle on the shores of
the Pacific a strong and virile British
stock. for ii is realized that the center
OF the worlds political gravity has
been for years setting in that direction.
and after the war will shift with in
creasing speed. A large section of the
English blue water school, processes to
view with great concern the ultimate