Show f DEVELOPING THE DOMINION 4 k kA A dispatch says Americans went last year rear I o Cana Canada a t to settle The dominion is exulting A T. T e that but its statesmen should keep something I. I fp Those Americans probably every everyone one 1 into the h great wheat wheat reg region on in inthe the northwest h he dominion or into the mines If that is kept little itt while wile the western h half lr of Canada will willand 1 P LJ a e western Americanized and anil they will have trouble over cre re reThe The Tho mounted police found it much more mori dif dif- cult euIt t to keep order after the Americans made the ush for the the Klondike and if western Canada CanadaS Canada'S S hoil hould bould d become Americanized 1 in fact fac the they are hato lia- lia le to be the balance of power which will decide A ost ii of the public questions in Canada 1 l LoOking k kinS the matter over it is a reasonably clear jao case that there should not be two gov governments r in in f I two countries on the western side of this continent tI In 1 the e east cast the great lakes and the St. St IJ Lawrence wrence r ale a natural division but in the tue west the the b t dary dary so far as the people are concerned is IS but an 1 line They all speak the same Game language W y have the sa same e. e ways the same same h hopes pes t t and this i IS so true It is IS almost groi gro gro- i u to hear a an earnest earnest Canad Canadian n disc with wi h hi an an b earnest American the especial glories of their t respective eSp governments After an hours hour's discus- discus i ian Bion p i in I which tl they y both grow hot they go put out and and Mip t to work on n the same vein or on n the same samo ranch rinch r i d. d while hile they work they talk and no one look look- mg upon them would know which was the thet i t Canadian g and which the Am American rican S S. S S 1 The J average man in the United Stat States s' s wo vold ld f. f cafe rc to se see Cana Canada a annexed to tl this is' is country S ht ili t question will Avill grow in fervor wh when n enough i ans cross the tile line and make homes The j jm m who when in this country found f fault 11 alb ui almost everything and went oC oil to Canada is o 0 fe Nl re a much more earnest American than h he hev V l a on 11 n t this is side bec because his old disposition t v r. r l is still on him V il h he I to return to the States s it would not be he six months until lie he S k o l b just as h impatient patient with Avith the ways way of thiD things s S jr 1 jf 1 this I side as he is IS now with ways the the in Canada i S' S But that class of men keep l vexed A questions always s 1 alive and hence the di discussion will Avill grow grow warm J. J after a ii while over the question of at whether it would v t be rD bc-rD for Canada to te ask for annexation to this l y or not I J Were Yere Canada to sever her relations S with Avith Great Gleat GreatS S Britain it would not hot be ten y years ars before fore she sue would 3 asking admission into the un union A At pr present sent she Rhe hc 1 lc leans n on the home government goA AVlen she sheets gets in 5 ft c i clos place there is where she slie le go goes gocs' gocs s fOl Y f jE ancl then lion she makes Great Britain l' l do o. o H t great deal I l lj j p p- p lIeI 1 A l ir f ii t o-f o te work work For instance oiin lt it if 1 4 l. l lq A. A ri mono 0 Great 1 ri ai built M that bu built lt the thc forts or cH cal t an and f. f at f j T ii id the garrisons in tl OS t ilis yAi In a thousand nd wg 1 f S' S 5 j q f j 5 u ih i i 1 ii the C Ca- Ca l will po the the map ati an ami l say have ave a greater area than the United States that they ar are doing loing well and want v nt no change and this thi is m nut nat tural t- t ural iral because the great body of mankind when they y get down t tg their real Ireal principles are more in love bye with their own pockets antI ami how they can keep them then filled than any other subject on earth But Bt with Canadian Frenchmen in lit the cast east anti anil all nil th tile the great host of men mell who were cro born under bur our in the tile west the agitation will bev bel renewed sure because it would be an absolutely natural conso consolidation of the two governments much more mor more natural than aI any y our country could make in the south S S. S is is a certain certai press in Mexico rc ico that say it itis its is s the wish of the United States slates to find an excuse x use by which h ch this cOli country tr can abs absorb rh Mexico M xico This country conquered red Mexico on once once e and could easily list by the stroke of the pen have added t tie the ie whole republic United sta States es but the tile people then dm and tl the people n nOw w want no such additions It is isa isa isi a i a different race their thoughts are different ent their habits habits' are different all aU their ideas idea are different I The truth is we want neither Mexico nor Canad Canada Can Can- ad ada nor any adjacent territory because our own country is so large now now that it is most difficult to all the sectional differences that divide I he the thoughts of our people S |