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 myself a foreigner in the midst of a nation whose people speak the language which is that my infant tongue learned at a mother's knee, and are governed by laws based upon the same fundamental principles as mine. The common ancestors of many of—most of—us laid deep and well the foundations of both speech and law—and peoples who speak the English language and obey the English Common Law cannot be alien or foreign to each other.

While many Canadians are not of the same race and do not speak the same language nor are they governed by the same system of law, yet they, too, look upon this nation in the same spirit as their fellow-Canadians of British ancestry.

Nor are the nations enemies or antagonistic, except indeed in that rivalry which is open to brother as to foe—the ways of trade are open to all, and each people will make the laws, levy the tariffs and impose the restrictions conceived to be best calculated to advance their own interests.

War, open or masked, there is not—there has not been open war for nearly one hundred years and it is inconceivable that it can ever again be. "Blood is thicker than water," and all the waters of the sea or of the Great Lakes cannot wholly sever those whom blood unites.

Notwithstanding the change of allegiance, the heart of those who have thus become citizens of the United States must needs turn to the Land of the Maple—for "their clime not their soul they change, who cross the sea"—and once a Canadian always a Canadian.

And some there are who remain, not only in sentiment, but also in fact and in law, citizens of our