U.S.A. AND CANADA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume LVIII, Issue 3, 2 February 1926, Page 6

U.S.A. AND CANADA.

WILL THEY JOIN UP?

AN ADVOCATE BISHOP,

A spirited controversy has been occurring in Canada as to the pi\ j :\ ability or possibility of th© vast Dominion linking its destinies with this United States, and thus “cutting tne painter” with the Empire. The following is the contribution to the dis-i mission by “Canadian Born”: Canada must work in harmony with the United States, which can get along without Canada better- than Canada can get along “without the United States.

1 believe every born Canadian would be glad to see Canada and tba United States one country. The only ones in Canada \yho would object ana a few loyalists who prefer to sea Canada remain as she is, a colony, regardless of her development or exploitation of her resources. Some of these people pinking their 'homes in. Canada, want us Canadians to look upon the United States as aj foreign country. Let us analyse that. It,-,is estimated..that, there are over fourteen million Canadian-born mak- | ing their homes in the United Stan-jx, and many more going here as soon as they finish schooling, and less five million Canadian-born making their homes in Canada. There are ten English-born making their homes \n the United States to the one English-born making his homo in Canada, and the proportion, of Scotch and Irish-born making their homes in the United States compared to Canada is over fifteen to one. Ther© are over two million making their homes in OanauTi. Most i every 1 family in Canada is divided [beI tween the two countries. Imagine 1 the rush to Canada of English, Scotch and Irish if our Government weife tot start negotiations with Washington for Canada to become a part of fthloj United States. This would quickly solve our immigration and high tax, problem. With our standard of living, business connections north and south, railroads, automobile highways and tourist business, surely Canada ana the United States are not foreign countries to each other, compared to South Africa, India, Australia ana England. It is that imperialistic propaganda that we Canadians are reading through some of our papers, and which is preached to us in our sd-crjl-i ed Canadian clubs and taught in our schools that is keeping Canada in the colonial position she occupies. People of any country subject to another country lack a national spirit. That i s why Canadians want to- join the United States, where they can become citizens of the country in which 1 they are trying to make tueir homes and raise their families.