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The Review of Reviews. 



September 1, 190^. 



teresting possession in my English home. Why do I re- 

 store the picture? Becans© I love the American people, 

 because mv sense of equity tells me that there are lusher 

 laws than "the law of possession, and because I believe that 

 neither Enzland nor America can fulfil its high mission 

 to itself or to the world unless we approach the con- 

 sideration of everv problem affectins our relation to each 

 other not from the narrow, selfish and provincial stand- 

 point of what America and England can each of them do 

 for themselves alone, hut from the higher standpoint of 

 what we all can do for England. America and the world 



THE DESTINY OP CANADA. 



Lord Grey continued as follows: — 



Coming as I do from Canada, whose lovely, sparkling 

 winter makes her in more senses than one the brightest 

 jewel ill the British crown, may I tell you what I know 

 yon will be glad to hear? We have safely embarked onr 

 national ship on the ocean of enormous developments, and 

 in order to enable us to realise as quickly as possible the 

 magnificent destiny that awaits us we hope you will allow 

 us to continue to draw largely on your friendly and 

 powerful assistance. 



Mr. Choate chaffed ns tlie other day at Ottawa, with 

 that kindly humour in which he so pre-eminently excels, 

 for the modesty which has caused ever.y Canadian, from 

 the Prime Minister to tlie youngest enfranchised citizen 

 of the Dominion, to believe that if the nineteenth century 

 belonged to the United States, the twentieth century be- 

 longs to Canada. Yes. gentlemen, this is the stimulating 

 faith of the people whom I represent. Any idea of the 

 possible annexation of Canada by the United States is 

 scouted by us as an impossibility as great as you would 

 regard the annexation of the United States by Canada. 



Canada, animated and inspired bv an abounding and all- 

 pervading national sentiment, which you gentlemen will 

 respect, because it is a characteristic of yourselves. Dot 

 only believes in her magnificent destiny, but has also the 

 audacity to believe that slie has had some considerable part 

 in the making of the United States. 



HER CONTKIBUTION TO THE UNITED STATES. 

 Gentlemen, if we have this belief, it, is not wholly our 

 own fault. Our proximit.v to you is one of the advantages 

 of our position. Your experts and pundits can descend 

 with ease from your seats of learning and teach the result 

 of their researches to the listening ears of reverent and 

 attentive Canada. Recently a distinguished party of your 

 geological expert.s came to Ottawa, and these American 

 liistoriaus who study only original records told us that 

 tlie iron ore which has so largel.y contributed to your 

 industrial prosperity, the diamonds which are being found 

 in various parts of the United States, and the soil which 

 has given fertility to the states of New England and to the 

 valle.v of the Mississippi all came from Canada. The 

 wealth which Canada has been slowly but surely accumulat- 

 ing for millions of years in our Laurentian Mountains was 

 transported on the stately chariot of a glacial drift from 

 out of the bountiful lap of our rich Dominion and 

 generously given by Canada to the people of the United 

 States. 



CANADIANS IN THE UNITED STATES. 



And not only has Canada given you her land and iron 

 ore. she has lent you the even greater assistance of_ a 

 strong and strenuous people by whose labour and energies 

 these great assets have been turned to profitable account. 



Your last census shows that 2.827,000 of Canadian born 

 and of Canadian descent have found happiness and a 

 home in your great Republic. Gentlemen, if a valuator 

 were to a.ssess the value of the land and of the iron ore 

 and of the 2,800,000 Canadian men and women given you by 

 Canada, the amount would reach a figure startling even 

 to this great city, accustomed though it be to the con- 

 aideratio'i of colossal and swelling estimates. 



But these are not the only evidences of assistance which 

 it has been the proud privilege of our industrious Cana- 

 dian beaver to render to your great American eagle. 



HEE PIONEERS. 

 It was the French-Canadian whose pioneer enterprise and 

 spirited imagination discovered for you the kingdom it is 

 your privilege to occupy. The French-Canadians were the 

 founders of Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburg. New Orleans. 

 Detroit. St. Paul. Milwaukee. They opened the door of your 

 treasure house and showed you the way to the realisation 

 of your present wealth and greatness. Let me quote you one 

 more instance te show that, although Canada and the 

 United States are ruled by different constitutions, the beat 

 which proceeds from the one great Anglo-Saxon heart 

 which is common to us both makes itself felt in all our 

 veins. 



HOW CANADIANS FOUGHT FOR THE UNION. 



At a time when the Dominion of Cajaada boasted but half 

 her present population, before the political and railway 

 foundation of her future greatness had been laid, so great 

 was the sympath.y felt in Canada for the bluecoats of tiio 

 North that forty thousand young Canadians left their 

 homes and their work and marched to your assistance in 

 order that they might help you in your hour of struggle 

 to achieve your national unity. 



It is a reflection which will never fail tor all time to stir 

 the heart of Canada, and. I hope, your hearts as well, that 

 at a time when the population of Canada was thin and 

 scanty, she furnished for the cause of liberty and Anglo- 

 Saxon unity an army greater in number than that of tlie 

 British troops who. under Wellington's command, won the 

 b,attle for liberty on the fields of Waterloo. 



AMERICAN INFLUENCE ON CANADA. 



The facts to which I have referred are sufficient to ex- 

 plain the undying and heartfelt interest which is felt in 

 Canada in everything that conduces to the higher life of 

 the United Stales, and if Canad.a can proudly claim that 

 she has been privileged to lend a hand to the building up 

 of the United States, siie is also conscious that there is not 

 a day on which she does not feel the influence of the ex- 

 ample, guidance and inspiration of the United States. 



During the few months I have been Governor-General of 

 Canada repeated visits from eminent Americans have 

 brought distinction to Ottawa and much valued help to 

 our i>6ople. 



Your geologists are not the only branch of American 

 administration and research which came to Ottawa during 

 last winter to help the young efforts of "our growing 

 countr.v. 



The chief figure of charm and of interest at our recent 

 forestry Convention in Ottawa was Gifford Pinchot, who 

 came from Washington with kind and friendly messages 

 from the President to assist us in our discussion, and most 

 grateful we were to him for the sympathy and interest he 

 expressed in our proceedings, and for the guidance he was 

 able to draw from his experience, and for the friendly 

 encouragement he gave us in our work. 



And last, but, not least, came the other day the generous, 

 courtly and appreciative Mr. Choate, who did not conceal 

 that he felt it an honour, as well as a pleasure, to take 

 off his hat to our lovely Lady of the Snows. 



And now, gentlemen, may I say. the more we see of 

 Americans the better we shall he pleased? 



•• ALL WE WANT. 



All we want is to know each other better than we do^ 

 and to help each other as much as we can. If Canada can 

 at an.v time help the United States in any direction which 

 will improve the conditions of life for your people, she- 

 will consider it a blessed privilege to be allowed to render 

 that assistance, and I feel sure that the people of the 

 United States will also be only too glad to assist us in our 

 struggle toward the realisation of higher ideals, and to- 

 ward the attainment of a national character distinguished 

 by the fulness with which the principles of fair play, free- 

 dom and duty shall l>e applied by the people of Canada to 

 the various occupations of their lives. 



Just as Canada is proud to think that 2.800.000 of her 

 stock is bringing vigour and strength to your Repiiblic, so 

 I feel sure you will be pleased that an ever-increasing flow 

 of your people into the Dominion will, by the addition of 

 the character, exi^erience and energ.v which they will bring 

 to our country, contribute to its greatness. The more 

 Americans that come to Canada, the better pleased we 

 shall be. We are not afraid that they will make less good 

 and loyal Canadian citizens than they have been good and 

 loyal American citizens. 



HOW CANADA ENTHRONES LIBERTY. 



The throne which Canada has built for the Goddess of 

 Liberty is not less comfortable than that which the charac- 

 ter of your reople and your political constitution have 

 built for her in the States. The iieople. through their re- 

 presentatives, can change their Ministers an.v day they 

 please during their Parliamentary session. The will of the 

 people is supreme. Gentlemen, it is because we in Canada 

 are daily and hourly influenced by your example and by 

 your ideals: it is because we. like you, are the children of 

 freedom, that we. like you. are so tenacious of our liber- 

 ties and rights. Given on both sides of our boundary a 

 continuation of the present unreserved and ungrudging re- 

 spect for each other's just and legitimate rights, a heart- 

 felt and chivalrous desire to promote each other's interests, 

 and to meet each other's requests in the fullest degree 

 consistent with the maintenance of our self-respect, and we 

 shall continue to advance, hand in hand and shoulder to 

 shoulder along the path of common development and to- 

 ward the attainment of a common ideal. To those of n9 

 who believe that in the coming solidarity and unification 



