BATTLE OF CHATEAUQUAY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 86, 31 May 1911, Page 5

BATTLE OF CHATEAUQUAY.

WHEX THE STA.US AND STRIPES WERE TilAi'LE!) IN THE DUST. r | 'w> from Ottawa that at the Festival of Empire the tableau r.p:vu2iilmg ,tl}o 15a iclo. of Chatcauoiiay will bo omitted from i’ a Canadian portion of the Empire• display suggests a lino of action t.iat may well bo followed by all nalions in rerpret of old feeds, in tl/at battle !;. Chateauan:!”, nearly one Imnclml year-: ago, tha ! eitoc! States troops were badly beaten. Tiu> 1 hi ted Stales army, and a (tenoral hi nil, invad'd Canada, and lor a couple of years was, with only a few exceptions, iieked Irani held to held. At the time, no doubt, the Canadians wore justified in exhibiting exultation, but the perpetuation of the exhibition in t'-ieso days; when all the old fighters are dead, cannot he rationally defended. i’ito cable nays the display was countermanded through fear of oil ending the I mled States. A better reason to ascribe the withdrawal to would be the consciousness on Canadies paid that tho proposed display toned to be in bad taste, imnciglibburly, and wholly useless from every point of-view. A time, should roni'e who!) all nations that have engaged _in fights should ho satisfied ■>' irh the Cults of their victories-with-ont annual or' centennial glorilica"°ns. The r"ges of impartial history are sufficient attestation of the ina-wess fiisnloved. and gaudy exinbitions of the triumph of one nation over another, especially when all tho old fighters arc dead, are little less than insane provocations.