Show NAILING FLAG FLAa TO NORTH POLE Our expanding population has lias erased the British Brit Brit- ish boundary line and is annexing in fact if not in name the Ole great Canadian Northwest to Uncle Sams Sam's broad domain John Bright in the darkest hour of oil our OUI Civil war waI when British statesmanship looked with eager e eye e and craned neck for the thc collapse of the structure of 1776 declared on the floor of England's Eng Eng- lands land's Parliament that he looked forward forwar to one flag Hag our star spangled banner our standard of freedom freedom free free- dom dorn to wave waye from Mexico's gulf guf to Arctic seaboard The verification of that prophecy is proceeding apace We Ve Pc are extending our bounds not by war but by the irresistible march of an invincible population population population lation that will have no other flag but that whitened by the tears of the women that wave ware it and reddened by bJ- the tIle blood of the men inca that bore it the emblem of human lUman equality human brotherhood and human advancement ad ad- with the stars of that heaven to which it leads and enriched by hy the blessings of that earth it glorifies The London Advertiser says of the American march to the Arctic gold fields Coupled with the present rush of population to the Northwest is the sinister inister suggestion of a land boom and its collapse e. George R. R Roberts director of th the United States Slates mint says f s there thele is hardly a crossroads community in Iowa that has hns not organized a a. syn syndicate syndi i- i cate cale to operate te in the Dakotas or in ill Canada This is iR the secret he lie says of the early arly movement of money mon mon- ey CJ- to the Wrest West Prices of land there have advanced 50 per cent in the last two years he declares an anthe and the upward movement seems still on The migration migration migra migra- tion lion into Canada is becoming notable Somebody has lias estimated that acres of Canadian land are arc sold a 18 day to people from this side of the line British Columbia in in virtue of the Spanish cession of 1819 and by li right ht of discovery was ours till fraudulent title tille deeds robbed us of that empire on the Pacific To 10 its rightful owners must it come again Under British rule rile it is destined t to become the dumping ground for Japans Japan's surplus population But nut the United States of Amel America ca can ne never er suffer stiffer a yellow Jeow empire to be erected between Puget Sound and the Aleutian archipelago To the American branch of the Anglo Saxon Anglo Saxon race of right belongs not alone Columbia C lumbia but hut the great plains plaint between that mountain bound province an and Hudsons Hudson's bay And it it- 1 must be ours without ut undue IJ flag g we must nail to the north pole |