June 2.
'The transplanting of a flower or a vegetable or a weed to a! new soil, under a different sky' invariably works superficial changes in the character and appearance of the plant but has never been known to bring forth anew species. The character of the various breeds of men Subject to much the same funda~ mental laws as those that govern ity uni ately as it migrates, than it upon flowers. The transplanted Englishman, or German or} Frenchman is different from the home grown type only in those superficialities which may _happen to be amusing, irritating, piquant or picturesque, but are! never really essential. Few races have gone further afield or have jected themselves to a greater variety of the influences of environment than the English speaking hybrid from the British Isles—an amalgam forged out Celt, Saxon, Dane and Norman, not to mention minor strains. There are several superficially istinet types of what we call the Anglo-Saxon, and, in wide distribution abroad, there are a score of newly developed types as clearly marked as the "home-ide" distinctions between Hibernian, Caledonian and English, but in the final analysis the stiners, not to mention language ition ud habits that all have in common, are much more pronounced than the distinctions in' all the provincial and colonial ing-very sound comment upon this phase of Anglo-American "The next momentous step in our history was accomplished by our army and navy when we success fully rebelled against the tyranny' of & prince foreign to the people over whom he ruled. As a result of the revolution, though bound! to the Mother Country by if Aissoluble ties of blood and lay and. literature and language, we [became a colony once removed and were permitted to pursue the even tenor of our way untrammelled by entangling alliances; wel were enabled to develop. our own habits, our own customs, our} own characteristics together' with] national consciousness and nationali pride. OF more far reaching importtance, however, to the world at large [was the lesson Great Britain learned that it was a mistake to attempt to} Jcocree a people sprung basically from tthe ame racial stock as themselves And all of this happened, my friends, without our really losing our place jin the family of English speaking nations and without impairing the fundamental ce-operation between such nations so necessary to the peace, the prosperity and the stability] Without that ce-operation, wit fon. basic principles our vaunted] civilization will be trampled in the Gust andthe world given over to forces inimical to our every principle fand our every ideal."
seems to us that in this address Mr. Franklin has struck precisely the right note at the right time. There is here no maudlin appeal for brotherly love, Both the British and the American peoples enjoy a good fight more than a love feast, re-aspect a worthy opponent more than a sycophantic ally and) would. be bored to extinction in an atmosphere in which there! were no competition, no differ-fences of opinion and no good natured bickering for diversion. Mr, Franklin makes no bones labour his reference to the Amer-jean Revolution, which did us both so much good, for he ha: the good sense to know that is not a delicate subject. Having] dealt with this subject on its he gets down to essen-\dbrings out the point] that the peace of the world is think today, but of the man) rabble that has nev'
[himself who occupies the throne been tried in battle. It seems American or Japanese military of Great Britain. In a very] like a staged demonstration interesting book recently pub-the Chinese fable about the fine land see." The foreign commu-hed, an American woman writ-fat rat, as big as a deer hound, nities in China must be very er described Edward VII as the) that fled in abject terror from grateful indeed to their military wisest monarch of his day. ithe mangy kitten. people who have undoubtedly Equally we may describe King) We can find no Chinese auth-over-ridden diplomatic qualms (George as one of the most human ferities locally who will furnish and have insisted upon the de-monarchs of all time. On acjus with a complete and satis fence of honour and. prestige count of the war probably more factory explanation. Northern-where the bureaucrats, with fof his subjects have met King) jets and Southerners alike, th their mediseval monkish mind: George personally than has) all agree now that the North is would have hushed comment been the case with any other the verge of a grand debacle and have approached the North-sovereign: they have spoken and, piecemeal, they all furnish ern situation with sweet unto him at investitures or dur-lus with scraps of unsatisfactory guests, as they backed out, and ing his frequent visits to the] explanation which we have to offerings of balm. sick and wounded in hospitals) piece together for ourselves. and his innumerable other public!
Several facts, however, stand out duties. And the many members. very clearly. The first is that
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