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colonial growth of European powers in the Western 

 Hemisphere. But this is also to the interest of all 

 the people of the Western Hemisphere. At best, the 

 inhabitants of a colony are in a cramped and un- 

 natural state. At the worst, the establishment of a 

 colony prevents any healthy popular growth. Some 

 time in the dim future it may be that all the En- 

 glish-speaking peoples will be able to unite in some 

 kind of confederacy. However desirable this would 

 be, it is, under existing conditions, only a dream. 

 At present the only hope for a colony that wishes to 

 attain full moral and mental growth is to become 

 an independent State, or part of an independent 

 State. No English colony now stands on a footing 

 of genuine equality with the parent State. As long 

 as the Canadian remains a colonist, he remains in 

 a position which is distinctly inferior to that of his 

 cousins, both in England and in the United States. 

 The Englishman at bottom looks down on the Ca- 

 nadian as he does on any one who admits his in- 

 feriority, and quite properly, too. The American, 

 on the other hand, with equal propriety, regards the 

 Canadian with the good-natured condescension al- 

 ways felt by the freeman for the man who is not 

 free. A funny instance of the English attitude to- 

 ward Canada was shown after Lord Dunraven's in- 

 glorious fiasco last September, when the Canadian 

 yachtsman, Rose, challenged for the America's cup. 

 The English journals repudiated him on the express 

 ground that a Canadian was not an Englishman and 

 not entitled to the privileges of an Englishman. In 



