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"This is from my small town, July 2/25 edition. Scream all you want, but Trump is not the first US president to suggest statehood."
"Americans have long
talked about Canada
becoming a state
Not long before Alaska and Hawaii became the 49th and 50th states in 1959, President Eisenhower pitched Canada becoming the 49th state. Now that sounds familiar.
A 1958 Mountaineer editorial took exception, but the Commonwealth was a factor unlike today. The old editorial stated:
We just read that some time ago, President Eisenhower asked to a prominent Canadian, "Don't you think you would be better off as our 49th State?"
If the president did ask that, then he should have stayed with the army, where he knew the ground rules.
Surely, all educated Americans should know by this time that Canadians are very content as they are; they have never expressed a wish to join the States and unless there is a very drastic change of heart, we doubt they ever will.
Ninety-nine per cent of Canadians are proud to be a part of the British Commonwealth.
Whatever would we gain by selling ourselves down the river to a boastful nation, that right now, often treats us like a poor relation, and most certainly would if we were? We would only lose our identity and be constantly reminded of how much better we were under the Stars and Stripes.
Few Canadians bear any enmity toward the Americans; most of us have many relatives there; our own favorite uncle and cousins are American citizens; people south of the border are kind, gen- erous neighbours, but being so rich and power- ful, far too many of them feel we are not as rich and powerful (which we aren't). But rich or poor, we are on our own - not dominated by another country, and we want to stay that way.
However, if the head of the American nation, does actually think and say, that we would be better off to join them, then we had better raise our voices in long and loud protests. Frankly, we thought Ike [Eisenhower] had more sense and lacking that, at least more tact."