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it not be fostered, furthered? To foment jealousy and hate is surely 

 not only ungenerous but dangerous. Is it not also essentially disloyal 

 to the Old Country? We know that, by the very nature of things, 

 our Motherland can not have one sincere and powerful friend in 

 Europe or Asia. Shall she not have one in America ? Is it loyal to 

 flout the mighty Republic of our kin and language ? It would seem 

 that some Canadians exult in trying to blot out the fair prospect of 

 pan-Anglican Union. That way loom madness and destruction. 



How wise has been the governing mind of England since 1865 ! 

 How conciliatory to the English Republic! If all Canadians were as 

 wise we could induce in the United States a perfect friendliness to 

 Canada. Indeed, such a sentiment largely exists already in the Re- 

 public, thanks partly to England's wisdom, and partly to the fact that 

 little influence is exercised over Canadian Governments by the can- 

 tankerous, small minority that desires to promote animosity between 

 the branches of the English on this continent. 



Well, this is surely an inordinately lengthy screed on the text 

 that one small Canadian book displeases a few Canadians by alleged 

 Americanism, while pleasing Americans by Canadianism and British- 

 ism. The latter fact accords with what I know, from much mingling 

 with our republican neighbors, to be true, viz., that the greatness, 

 efficiency, power, wealth, and national security of the United States 

 give that English folk a generosity, magnanimity, breadth of vision, 

 goodwill to mankind (a truly pan- Anglican and imperial feeling), 

 which are quite lacking in the few Canadians who inveterately detest 

 the Republic. 



Yours cordially, 



E. W. Thomson. 



II. 



/. Ottawa, June 2nd, 1909. 



Dear Mr. Thomson : — 



* * * While in matters of immediate policy and politics 

 we differ, I am in sympathy with the ultimate aims which you show 

 forth. 



With your conception of an ultimate union of some sort of the 

 English-speaking world I am, of course, in full sympathy. But I do 

 not wish to keep my eyes fixed so incessantly on the goal as to be- 

 come oblivious to the dangers of the road by which I must reach that 

 goal, and with regard to the policy of the immediate future I am by 

 no means in agreement with you. 



