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Regarding the general characteristics of America, he thought 
the only fine city—in the sense they used the term—was Wash- 
ington, which was based on the plan of the best European cities. 
Unless they had friends or letters of introduction, American 
travel was not so very pleasant to the ordinary English citizen. 
He did not agree with the remark as to any lack of loyalty 
amongst Canadians. He made enquiries on that point. The 
ordinary Canadian of British extraction is more loyal to what they 
called the Imperial Government than anything shown by English- 
men on this side. 
Among the French Canadians there is, no doubt, a sense of 
pride and self-dependence which made them try to prevent 
their language being swamped. They lived in a country practi- 
cally among themselves—three-fourths of the population spoke 
the French language, and when that was the case there was 
naturally a good deal of sentiment among them. 
There was a strong feeling of hostility between the Canadians 
and the Americans in a general way, not less than between the 
Southern American and the Yankee in the Northern States. It 
might be due to rivalry in trade, or be racial. 
It was interesting to him to go to the Southern States where they 
found characteristics which did not exist in the North. The bulk 
of the population were negroes. After leaving Washington, going 
south, one would see trains going into a station with a big label 
marked “ Colour” on the first carriage, and every coloured man, 
woman and child had to go into that one carriage, and no other. 
That they did not see north of Washington. What was going to be 
the end of it he could not tell, but the racial question was going 
to be a difficult one for the Americans to settle. 
Mr. T. Crook also gave some reminiscences of his recent visit 
to Canada and the States. He found the Americans liked to be 
flattered, and when they were flattered they would do anything 
for them. If, on the other hand, one ventured to criticise, he 
would be dropped like a hot brick. (Laughter). He found these 
two methods occasionally very useful. For specialization in 
industry he saw nothing equal to the pig sticking operation at 
Chicago, where, by the aid of machinery which carried the pigs 
on a wheel, one man was able to stick ten pigs a minute for ten 
hours a day. (Laughter). 
Mr. J. W. Thompson, J.P. expressed his great appreciation 
not only of the Lecture, but also of the water-colour drawings 
around the room. He had no idea before that Mr. Kay was so 
clever. But Mr. Kay, who came of a talented family, was a keen 
observer with artistic tastes, and a man of considerable experience. 
(Hear, hear). He eulogized Boston as a great literary centre and 
