The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-02
|CAMADA,SATTRAC7IOM ARE
CLEARER AFTER PARIS TRIP
Manitoba Free Press's" Editor Tells U. S. News
paper Men of Big Contracts Amity on Both Sides
of Line but Political Union Never Expected

ninety years later were linked up into
the Dominion OF Canada.
The men who lay the foundation OF
community give II an Impress and
character which II never sheds; they
dig the channels along which the cur.
rents of life run; they fix the focal
points about which the elements OF ma
tional life crystalline. English Canada
has never abandoned the standards set
by those first makers of this Common
wealth-lawgivers, divines. teachers
farmers, merchants--who have been IN
their graves over a hundred years and
from whose Wondering epitaphs one can
learn that they were born in New Eng
land or In New York or In Pennsyl-
vania or Virginia.
Canadians and Americans are kindred
peoples, derived from a common stock.
who were divided by an issue whicn
separated brother from brother; and
each section of the divided family has
since received accretions OF population
from similar sources. The result Is the
typical Canadian and American of to-
day--differing in our conception OF the
State and In our allegiance, but so alike
in physical appearance. In mental apti-
tudes, In social and business conven-
tons, in outlook, that we pass from one
country to another without experience
ing any depressing feeling in our new
homes, that we are strangers In
strange land.
But this close relationship in blood,
this Joint inheritance of law, this pride
in the GLORIOUS ancient England who was
our common mother, would not in them
selves insure this continent peace, har-
mony and fraternity for North America
is not an Anglo-Saxon preserve. In our
populations on both sides OF the line
there are blood strains from every Eu-
ropean race. Racially North America
has tended to become replica OF Eu-
rope How have we escaped the blood
feuds which periodically turn Europe
into shambles? We have escaped be-
cause our immigrants of diverse stocks
have, at least In their second genera
ton, taken our language for their own.
The experience Of Europe has shown
that a people living in it's ancestral home
is an indestruetible racial unit. The COM
bination of soil, race and language en-
dures alike the shock of war and the
slow tooth of time. But the experience
of America Is that when people remove
from their native soil they assimilate the
standards of the land to which they go,
provided they adopt the language Of their
new home.
People who use the same language be-
long to the same intellectual common
wealth: they have access to the same
stores of knowledge and reflection: they
drink from common funds of inspiration.
Though they may differ upon occasion
and over secondary issues they are fun
damentally the same people. and on
great causes they stand together. as we
did at Armageddon.
English Tongue Solves Troubles.
It is the English tongue which is the
solvent OF our racial troubles. II we
maintain unfiinchingly the rule that Eu-
ropean peoples who come here must ac-
cept, at least for their children, the Eng
lish language a future of harmonious
cooperation and incress sing friendliness
is ensured for the two English speaking
countries of the North American conti-
nent.
There are those who. noting their like
ness to one another not only in funds-
mentals but in external conventions,
suggest that the time may come when
the two English speaking nations on this
continent will be made one by an honor
a BILE marriage.
That will never be. 1t Is not neces-
sary; II is not desirable and II Is
not practicable. II is the unchange-
aDie purpose or the Canadian people
to build up on the northern half of
this continent one of the great COM
monwealths of all time.
AS you go throughout the country and
take note of our wide plains. our great
rivers. our mighty forests and our tower
ing mountains you will see that we
have the physical setting for such an
empire as that OF our vision and we
believe, more deply than ever, by virtue
OF all that the last five years has shown
that az people we shall be equal to
our destiny.
The valor and the sacrifices OF our
half million sons on the battlefields Of
Europe have placed the name of Canada
high in the armament of glory, and
there 1t shall shine with growing SPLEEN
dor during the centuries
But In this future for us there is no
menace to you. We shall be friendly.
generous r!vals In a noble connection
of service. We shall learn from one an
others PROJECTIONS, we shall be guided
by one another's mistakes We shall
guard our common and sacred inheri-
lance of democratic civilization from
enemies without and from foes within.
to the end that there will be in per-
petuity on this happy. fruitful continent
sister nations-alike and yet unlike.