Canadian "Swelled Head."
TORONTO, Feb. 20. There Is undoubtedly a sentiment among the younger generation of Canadians that the Dominion is getting 'a very big boy," and that? to use Sir Wilfred Laurier's favourite expression, "Canada is no longer a colony, she is a nation." How far this sentiment will carry Canada is a problem which time alone ran solve The best thing for Englishmen to do is to beai- with this Chauvinism, and to leave the corrective process to Canadians themselves. found here in the person of Captain ;ii IU £ ter '. who this «'«* addressed the Empire Club of this city upon "The Fatuous Insolence of Canadians." He did not mince Ma language ,„ condemning the policy *"? W " Ster -" wllich «™w enable Canada to ohftain all the benefits of British connection without sharing its burden. The sentiment of his-addresH mtty ., )c Katllt .,._ ed from his concluding words •— •■ I thank the members of the club' for the patience with which they have "« t" wnls «hich I hope fhev would allow none but a native Canadian to utter."
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 91, 21 April 1904, Page 4
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175Canadian "Swelled Head." Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 91, 21 April 1904, Page 4
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