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any other source. We have never, I beheve, regarded Canada 

 as an outsider. I have always feh that the American Fish- 

 eries Society, true to its inclusive name, took in everything 

 on the North American and South American continents, and 

 I believe that before we get through the influence of the work 

 that we are carrying on will be felt in all parts of this hemis- 

 phere, even the remotest. As we proceed with our work, the 

 invisible line to which reference has been made will, I am sure, 

 become of as little significance as the old Mason and Dixon 

 line has become in the United States. The time is at hand 

 when what is Canada's interest in relation to the commercial 

 and the internal fisheries, fish and game, lumber, minerals or 

 anything else, will likewise be the interest of the United States. 

 As Shakespeare says : 



The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, 

 Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. 



So let us grapple ourselves to one another. There cannot 

 be any longer a boundary line between the United States and 

 Canada. When Mercier stood up in New York City a year 

 ago last fall and spoke of the relationship between Canada 

 and the United States, there was not a red-blooded man in 

 the room who did not feel peculiar thrills running up and 

 down his back. 



We in the United States cannot read of the exploits of 

 your Northwest Mounted Police without thinking of our 

 Texas Rangers. We cannot think of the wind passing through 

 the white pine and the hemlock in the north country here with- 

 out thinking also of the birch and poplar on the hills of old 

 New England. We cannot feel the sharpness of the air in 

 Canada without realizing that we are hungering for just the 

 same thing a little to the southward, and we know that when 

 our boys arrive here from Kansas and Nebraska they are 

 going to feel pretty much at home. So there is a great com- 

 munity of interests that draws us together, and it is irre- 

 sistible. I want to say to you men of Canada that we are 

 not coming here as interlopers; we are not coming here as 



