The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1911. CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 92, 8 June 1911, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1911. CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES.

Peculiar interest attaches at the present juncture to the opinion expressed by the University Magazine of Toronto, Canada, upon the character of the existing relationship between Canada and the United States. “For a hundred years,” we are told, “hatred of England was the hoop which kept the States of the American Union together. It served its purpose, until organic union replaced that external force, and it has long since been discarded. Dread of absorption by the United States was the main incentive for the confederation of the Canadian provinces forty years ago. This contingency was ever present in the minds of the fathers of confederation, for they had before their eyes Article 11. of the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, which reads:—‘Canada, acceding to the confederation, and joining in the new measures of the United States, shall 1)0 admitted into, and entitled to, all the advantages of this union.’ The disaster of war which overtook the United States in 1861, and tfie misgovernrnent which prevailed during the balance of the nineteenth century, allowed the Canadian provinces time and opportunity to grow together into a well-ordered community. Hatred and fear have vanished in company. The United States can now be as friendly as they like towards England without dread of disruption; and Canada is secure enough in the bonds of affection and obligation with the Empire to find only cause for rejoicing in that era of good government in the United States which is about to begin. For, in truth, tligre has been m recent years in that country such a revival of the public conscience, and a revolt against civic unrighteousness, as reminds onb of tlie moral indignation which ended in the overthrow of the horrid institution of slavery. For a generation the United States has served us as a warning. In the future it may serve us equally as an example, if it does not become weary in well-doing. Already wc have begun to cleanse our civic administration by a plan devised in Galveston; to control our transportation companies by a method which wo learned from the Inter-State Commission ; to regulate our insurance companies in accordance with the Armstrong Law ; to curl) our combines with the bit suggested by Senator Sherman; and to conserve our assets with an instrument devised by Mr Roosevelt. With the disappearance of hatred on one side, and fear on the other—two qualities which do not for ever exalt a nation—wc may now apply our minds to discover the good qualities, rather than the defects, of each other; and wo shall be none the loss good Canadians and good Americans, or any less resolute to uphold our respective ideals.”