Week
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contributor: W. Blakemore
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1911-09-16
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note: r Everitt Motor Car lanover-Trotter Motor Co. iwroom, 931 View St. Phone 2346 The A British Columbia Newspaper aad PnblUhed at Victoria, B. 6. Hall Sf Walker Agents Wellington Colliery Company's Coal 1232 Gov't. St. Telephone 83 i, IX. No. 37 Ninth Year THE WEEK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 191 One Dollar Per Annum It Is Her Own Soul That 66 99 Canada Risks To-day "Once that soul is pawned- for any consideration, Canada must inevitably conform to the commercial, legal, financial, social, and ethical standards of the United States," says Rudyard Kipling. By Special Cable from the Special Correspondent to the Montreal Star \ LONDON, Sept. 7—Mr. Rudyard Kipling sends the following message to the Canadian people through the Montreal Star:; Batemans, Burwash, Sussex, England, September 6th "To the Editor of the Montreal Star: "I do not understand how nine million people can enter into such arrangements as are proposed with ninety million strangers on an open frontier of four thousand miles, and at the same time preserve their national integrity. Ten to one is too heavy odds. No single Canadian would accept such odds in any private matter that was as vital to him personally as this issue is to the nation. "It is her.own soul that Canada risks today. Once that soul is pawned for any consideration, Canada must inevitably conform to the commercial, legal, financial social and ethical standards which will be imposed upon her by the sheer admitted weight of United States. "She might, for example, be compelled later on to admit reciprocity in the murder rate of the United States, which at present, I believe, is something over one hundred and fifty per million per annum. "If these proposals had been made a generation ago, or if the Dominion were to-day poor, depressed, and without hope, one would perhaps understand their being discussed; but Canada is none of these things. She is a nation, and as the lives of nations are reckoned, will ere long be among the great nations. "Why, then…
note: Publisher changes in chronological order: publisher not identified (1904-1906) The Week Publishing Co., Ltd. Offices (1906-1907) "The Week" Publishing Company, Limited (1907-1918) publisher not identified (1918-1920)
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Victoria (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0344279
language: English
lat: 48.428333
long: -123.364722
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Victoria : ""The Week"" Publishing Company, Limited
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text