Show 1 CANADA The Montreal Star and the New York Sun are having a spat about whether it would not be better for Canada to cease or to sever Its allegiance to Great Britain and Join hands wlth the United States The Sun paints out some very strong reasons For Instance that as population Is Increasing the gravity center of the Englishspeaking race will before the year 2000 pass and pass by an Immense advance from London to New York Also that within adoz en years as things are progressing the worlds money center will have been tranofcrred from London to Now York that after that date the Dominion of Canada or any other British colony if it desires to procure a loan will obtain ob-tain It much cheaper In the American than In the British metropolis And the Sun adds From that moment the whole Englishspeaking world acutely alive to the fact that in the twentieth century political economy Is destined to be Immensely more Importance than politics properly so called will recognize recog-nize that their real metropolis Is not London but New York WJiQn London confesses herself unable to lend the British colonies money at rates so I cheap as those obtainable In the New Worlds commercial metropolis the colonies col-onies will one and all acknowledge that Englands scepter has departed westward to her colossal daughter State That may be true and still tho Canadians Ca-nadians may not want to unite with the United States < In this material age no matter how sentimentalists may I talk money controls politics public opinion and Governments Canada has I more territory than the United States She just now Is drawing immense sums from her western possessions and the prospect seems to be that those returns will Increase In volume year after year for very many years to come In that event Canada can do anything she pleases without borrowing money from GleaC Britain or the United States She can run an independent Government of her own and can grow and expand under un-der that Government and hence we think it Is foolish for American newspapers news-papers to be totting Canada continually i how much better off she would be If she would unite with the United States It keeps the Canadians bollev lug that the people on this side of the line are Just dying to havq them join our Republic nnd that Is not true There tre lots of firstClass Canadians and there are lots of mean ones too I There are lots of men In Canada who never saw England who think It isa great thIng to call Uiemgelves the ipynl l 1 subjects of her Majesty There are lots of FrenchCanadians there that hate both England nnd the United f States and hence It is Just as well lo I let them light It out on thai line for a lv years We have troubles enough i of our own without having any addi t tional Canadian troubles because they arc a stubborn people up there They do not give up when they think they I ought to make a point they continue tp I I I work at it Let them work It i out J Especinllyjs i this a bad year to talk i to lht Canadians ulart1ans about withdrawing I from the British empire and becoming a part of this Republic for an extreme tenderness has come over thc Canadians Cana-dians toward the mother country since the Boer war began They sent their contingent of soldiers there They share In the glory If not In the shame of that war which has been raging now so long We say let them alone There Is more chance for a clog business busi-ness alliance with Englands other colony col-ony In the South seas than with Canada Can-ada There arc some bright men who Isolated by miles of ocean all around them can afford to be Independent and while they pay nominal allegiance to Great Britain It is only nominal They drink the Queens health on her birth day At the close of their banquets they sing God Save the Queen and take off their hats while the anthem rings on but they are as Independent a i set of thInkers as live on earth and they naturally turn to the United I States as to their closest friend I It will all be right at tho end but I speaking for the American people we I I should say never try coaxing the Canadians Ca-nadians let them alone If they ever want to join their fortunes with ours all right Until however they mani fest a disposition to do that thing It does not hasten the time a minute by pointing out to them how much better bet-ter off they would be The grnndchll r dren of Canadians In this country will do the work eventually because the Canadians are bright and when a young man reaches maturity and there are not ties that make it Imperative that he should l remain at home he < slips across tho line He still claims that Great Britain Is the only Government in the world but he docs nqt hesitate to be naturalized Just as soon as possible pos-sible and goes to work to try to make this country In the distant future as line a land to live In asCanada |