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to resent our ignorance of geography and our
arbitrary boundary making. They are irritated
by hearing Englishmen speak of America when
they mean the United States of America,
apparently forgetful that there are about seven
million British subjects among the Americans.
They are as integral a part of the British Empire
as Great Britain, full of the same energy and the
same aims. Treat the Canadians as ‘‘ colonials”
and they resent it; treat them as brothers owing
allegiance in the same degree to the same King,
and then, and then only, shall we preserve their
loyalty.