Show EA HARDING I 0 0 i 0 0 CENTURY OLD FRIENDS HELD HELDi i UP TO WORLD I Says Public Will Rather i Than Force Key ToI To Peace I LESSON FOR EUROPE Hes He's First American Pres President i ident To Visit Dominion VANCOUVER VA B C July 26 26 President Harding In an addresS addres made during his visit here today today- today the first visit made by an Ameri Amen American American can president to Canada pointed to the century old friendship be- be between between be between tween the people of Canada and the th people of o the United States Slates as proof to the nations of 01 o pub pub- pub lie lie will etil rather than public force IS ISI I Ithe the key to International peace It It Is la public T will not that makes maes for tor enduring peace he told hIs hia audience of 01 Canadians gathered In Stanley park And Is It not a gratifying circumstance circumstance that It has hag fallen rallen to the lot of us North Americans liv- liv livIng liv living ing lag amicably for more mol than a II cen- cen century century cen century tury under different flags to pre pre- present present pre present sent the more striking striking- example et etI I prod produced of 01 that basic fact It if only European countries scoutS heed the lesson conveyed by Cana Cana- Canada da In and the United States they would strike at nt the root of dis disagreements agreements and in their own pros pros- prosperity prosperity forget to inveigh constant constant- constantly ly iy at ours oure GO OWN GIT G vrr IT ITI I With his emphasis upon the thelong thelong thelong long friendship between Canada and the United States States Mr Hard Hard- HardIng Harding Ing coupled advice to the people of 01 the dominion to guard against gis- gis giving lag Ing encouragement to to tiny hay ny enter enter- enterprise prise looking hooking to Canadas Canada's annexation annexation tion Hon of ot the United States Let us g gd go our own o gaits galts along parallel roads iou ou helping us and we e helping ion ou ho added Mr Ir larding i-larding at the outset alluded to his visit being the first e eer er m de by a president of the United States tates to Canada during a term of 01 office ottice and with sith the exception or of the visits of 01 President W Wilson lIson ilson to Europe the first on any politically foreign soil Boil and he GOOD NEIGHBOR But Dut exceptions e are required to prove rules And Canada is an ex- ex exception ex exception a lL most notable from every viewpoint Ie ot of o the baited States You are arc not only our seigh- seigh neigh neigh-bor ben bor but a aery ery cry ery good neighbor and we rejoice in sour our ad and admire lour our Independence no noless noless noless less sincerely than w eo cc value ahle our friendship W We WO think the samp- samp thoughts thou live the same annie 11 uses es and cherish the same aspirations of ser ser 5 vice ser sice Ice to each other in times of o need Thousands of o our bra brave brat t lad lads Ier per perished I hed in gallant and generous gen rous RC- RC action ac action tion for or the prese preservation allon of our unIon iIan Many Ian Ian- of our oung men followed Canadian colors to th battle fields of France before e entered the war and and left let their pro pro- proportion proportion pro proportion portion of o killed to share tile graces es graves graves- of cone our int rn sons What hat an object lesson of of peace is sho shown shon n today in our t two 0 fron fron- frontier fron- fron frontiers frontiers I tier tiers no huge battleships patrol lis our dividing I waters titers no stealthY spies I lurk urk In our tranquil border borderI hamlets Only a lL scrap of af paper I I 1 recording hardly more than a sim- sim simple simpie sim simple pie understanding life and on the great lakes and only humble bumble mile posts mark the Inviolable In boundary line for tor thousands of 01 miles males through farm and forest Our t protection Is in our QUI tra- tra our armor Is our faith falth I Ithe the tie sat binds snore more firmly year yearby yearby by eat ear Is eHr ecer ev cr Increasing ac- ac ac acquaintance ln nce and comradeship through interchange JJ of citizens and the compact L Is not of 01 perish perishable I lable able parchment but of fair and and h dealing which chIch God GodI Ih I grant shall continue for tor all time NO KO QUOTA TO Do I An interesting and significant 8 of our growing crowIng appears In the fact that the volun voluntary I tary interchange of ot residents ta to I have referred ls is hollY 1 I tree free Our nation nation- I at al 1 and Industrial exigencies have made It necessary tot toe us us greatly to I Imade our regret to fix limits to from Irom foreign countries But gratiOn We e Canada for fOl these Is no Ithee of 01 sturdy welcome all your gladly I stock who care to come U as UI Ua asa steady Ingredient and In- In I strengthening a WO e none the less bId Godspeed and happiness to the of our own folk scho ho are swarming constantly 0 over oser er our land and participating In Its re- re remarkable re remarkable development Wherever In Ither of 01 o our countries any ny In-i In ed on Page race Two t IT I I I CENTURY OLD FR ERIE E HELD UP TO V Page Continued t f from Pago lC One habitant of the one or the other can enn best serve sene the Interests of ot him him- himself himself self and his family Its 15 Is the place for him to be A further evidence of our increasing In- In In Increasing creasing Interdependence appears In the shifting of capital SInce the armistice I am Informed ap- ap approximately ap approximately proximately 2 has found Its I way nay ar from t the tho United States Slates Into Canada for tor Ins estment Most gratifying Ing to 0 ou moreover or should ao old be the circumstance that halt ono half of at that thit great sum I gone for tor purchase of at your state and municipal bonds a tribute In- In Indeed Ind In Indeed I d deed ee d to the scrupulous maintenance maintenance maintenance nance of sour our credit to a a degree gree I eq equalled ualle only b by lour our mother country across the sea and your our sister country countr across the hardly hardly border QUOTES BRICE A hundred years ears of ot tranquil through s which elsewhere would have havee e eok evoked ok cd armed conflict rather than arbitration affords truly declared James Bryce the finest ever seen In history ol ot an unde wide undefended undefended fended fr frontier omler whose v very ery er Y ab- ab absence ab absence sence of at armaments Itself helped to prevent hostile demonstrations Ito thus proving beyond question that tha than t peace D can n alwa S s bp be bi kept what what- whatever ever eHr bbc the grounds of contro contro- controversy versy ersy ersy between peoples that Ish wis h to keep It There Is a great and highlY pertinent truth my friends In that single assertion It Is public will III not of public tie force that makes for enduring enduring peace And nd It is not gratifying gratifying tying circumstance that it h hay has tal- tal tallen fallen fal fallen len to the lot of ot us North Korth Americans Amer Amer- AmerIcans Americans living amicably for more than a century under dIfferent flags to present the most strikIng example yet ct et prod produced Iced of ot that basis 1 If only European countries j would heed the lesson com conveyed eyed by Canada and the United States tates they would strike at the I toot loot oot of their t tn own n continuing disagreements and andIn In their Own own wn prosperity forgot forget to Inveigh con constantly to ours NO REPROACH Not that v e would reproach them tor for resentment or en entry which after all is but a manifests manifesta manifestation tion of human nature rather should we s sympathise e with their seeming inability to break the sh- sh ckles of long age-long methods and rejoice in III our own relative freedom from the It stultifying effect of ot old arid w orld customs and practices Our natural ad advantages are manifold and obvious We Ve are not palsied I by tho the habits of a a thousand bears cars We Ve 11 live e In the po power poser er and glory ot of youth Others derive justifiable from contemplation of their resplendent pasts We VVe e ha havo 0 relatively only our present to regard re- re reI regard re regard gard and that with Ith eager eyes C es fled filed chiefly upon our future I Therein lies our best estate We profit both mentally and material material- materially ly from the tho fact tact that we ne e have havo no a departed greatness to recover no lost provinces to regain no noo new territory to co covet et no o ancient nt grudges to gnaw eternally atthe at the heart of our national conscious consciousness on ness mess ness Not only are we ve w happily ex- ex exempt ex exempt r- r I exI empt from those usages but sea but butare are animated correspond correspondingly an and nd most helpfully by our better beter knowledge derived from long ex- ex ex experience experience of at the blessings of libb- libb libb-erty libb erty I I find that quite unconscious unconscious- unconsciously clous- clous ly Iy I am speaking of our two countries almost in the te singular when perhaps I should be more painstaking to keep leep them where here they belong In the tho plural Dut But I feel no need to apologize You un- un understand understand un understand as well as that I speak In Inno no political sense The Tho ancient bugaboo of at the United States scheming to annex Canada disappeared disappeared disappeared from all our minds Sear Seare ears s ao ago n knose knows s n we e e have hate ali al l we can manage now and room enough to spare for tor another hun hun- hundred hundred hundred dred millions before approaching g the Intensive stage tage of ot at o f many European states onn OF Or ADVICE And If It I might be so bold as asI asto asto I to offer otter a word of advice to you ou It would bo be this Do not encourage encourage encourage age any enterprise looking to Cnn Can Canada's Can Canada's adas ada's annexation of at the United States You are one ono of the tho most capable governing gO peoples In the world arid but I entreat you iou ou tor for sour our I own 0 n sakes to think t twice lee before undertaking management mana of the I terrItory which lies between the Great lakes and the Rio Grando Grande I Now ow let us ua go our 0 own n gaits galts along parallel roads you helping I Ius Ius us and I and wo 0 helping you So long as each country maintains Its Inde- Inde Independence Independence and both recognize their Interdependence those paths cannot cnn can can cannot not fall tall to be high highways ays of progress I and prosperity |