Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-09
Canada's Self.C0veramen5
Lauded as Source OF Power

Enthusiastic congratulations from
Tic Aiiie. ian ptess nave Deen extend
ed to the Canadians on the recent
celebration OF the Dominion's diamond
judi =, concentrating the rounding
out OF 90 years as a confederation,
The strong and enduring friendship
between the United States and it's ad.
Jacent neighbor to the North is warm
ly applauded. and rosy predictions for
Canada'S future are made
Long life and lasting health. pros
perity and peace to Our Lady of the
SHOWS" is the toast of the Newark
News, while that of the Providence
Bulletin is Americans extend hearty
congratulations to their Canadian
friends, at the time of the diamond
jubilee, wishing them long career of
constructive progress, prosperity, hap
piness and continued achievement"
Declaring that this country shares
in Canada's good feeling over her
happy past and her potent future"
the Dayton Daily News voices its con-
CALCULATIONS, and the New York Eve
ming Post, in it's comments on the an
niversary of the "oldest of the British
selfgoverning dominions," says: "The
United States has special cause for
Joining in the chorus of congratula-
tons and good wishes which is rising
from every part of the world. We have
the good fortune to be Canada's near
est neighbor. We are the first Nation
to receive a Minister from Ottawa
and, therefore, the first to send Min
ister to the Canadian capital"
X X X
Concerning the formation of the
confederation which is being cele-
brated the Schenectady Gazette states:
up to the time of our Civil War
Canada consisted Of a number of in
dependent provinces. They were a
part of the British Empire, but were
not connected with each other. Then
they were federated and from that
time on their growth has been con-
slant, records this paper, as it fur
Their remarks that "as with this coun-
try, division would have prevented
progress. if it did not result in retro
gression. And, as with us, union has
spelled development
To the mind of the Buffalo News
Canada has gone far politically in the
past 90 years, the News taking note
that Ito the four provinces that con-
stituted the Dominion at the time OF
the deration-Ontario, Quebec.
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
were added. in the next few years,
MdHltopt~p brlLlSn COlumDia, 1rlnCe
Edward i: nd Alberta and Sas-
katchewan," and that lin her rela-
tions with Great Britain Canada is
unswervingly loyal, but desires recog-
milton as a nation within the empire"
That Canada is to be congratulated
upon the independent status she en-
joys IS the opinion expressed by sew
eral newspapers, among which is the
Philadelphia Public Ledger, which
points out that to-day Canada en-.
joys, for practical purposes, the rights
of full nationhood. standing upon
equality with Great Britain under the
crown. The Dominion was a party to
the Treaty of Versailles, is a member
or the League of Nations, attends in
ternational conferences, is represented
even at the conference of major naval
powers at Geneva. Exchange of
ministers plenipotentiary with the
United States is. perhaps, the most
significant indication of it's independ.
ence and sovereignty" AS the Bal :
timore Sun puts it, Gradually and |
quietly, the great Dominion has taken |
unto herself the substance of indie |
pendence without sacrificing her vital |
position in the xritish Commonwealth
Of Nations"
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