rebuke to Americans, because the United States Government has been
making laws which are hurtful to Canadians.

Some of the American mine-owners became so alarmed that they took out
their naturalization papers. Others determined to defy the law, and
commenced hostilities by sending the ore they got from their mines over
the border into Washington, to be smelted.

This took a good deal of business and money out of the hands of the
Canadians, and there was an outbreak of indignation over it.

There promises to be a good deal of trouble before the matter is
settled.

The Canadians will allow no American workmen to be employed on the
Public Works, nor can they hold any good positions in the towns.

The Americans profess not to mind this in the least, declaring that the
Canadians are welcome to manage their towns as they please, if they will
only let the Americans in the mines alone.

This law against Americans does not, however, meet with the approval of
the Canadian Parliament, the Legislature which passed it being only the
local one of British Columbia.

Many of the Canadian mine-owners are as annoyed over the matter as the
Americans are. They say that the citizens are helping to open up their
country, and that it will be a bad thing for British Columbia if the
Legislature makes it impossible for Americans to remain there.