Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1918 — Yankees Feel the Ties of Kinship With Canadians Drawing Closer [ARTICLE]

Yankees Feel the Ties of Kinship With Canadians Drawing Closer

By G. BONNER

Over the line Canadians and Americans fraternize as neighbors do over the back fence. Sometimes they cross from one side and settle on the other. The stocky Canuck from Quebec province moves into Maine and raises his log house among the pines; ranchers from Montana and Dakota go northward to till the rich plains of Alberta and Manitoba: They intermarry and the children are Canadians or Americans —they might just as well be one as the other. For there is no lurking suspicion, no veiled distrust between us. and our brother of the north. We are of the same race, live by the same ideals. Of all our national relationships our closest is with him. He its not only our nearest neighbor but he is our nearest of kin. There have been times when we envied him the riches of his vast empire yet to come, his •well-administered laws, his thrifty competence where we have been careless and slovenly, his sturdy honesty. Canadians rose from desk and bench, locked the shop and closed the ledger, left the plow in the furrow and the pick in the mine breast, not alone to help England in her need but to preserve the creed that their race has lived by since John met the barons at Runnymede. What our brother of the north did in France and Flanders is now matter of history. Writ larger than the Plains of Abraham are Ypres and Loos, from this time forth names of heroic invocation.