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L t1tOER CANADA SLTPI%EM EN'F
HE ERA OF FULFILLMENT,
11 YEARS UNDER LIBERALS
Glance at the Big Things Which
Have Been Accomplished
Under Laurier.
hopes of patients! expansion and pros.
p.vlty upon the W,st. lieth parLIts
were elm, re and eel -nest lu their dee.
„in to have this country peopled and
developed. If a gist. credit -to Georg..
!frown for hh perdatrut and unwearied
advocacy of the addition of the Went
to Canada. we must etre ,refill also
to the, I•unr,•r vn Gve Government et a
quarter of a century ago for Its hold.
salts were disappointing. and that to
his celrarated letter of 11111. the non.
Odes/rid Blake stoke of "a ,Nortii•Welt
empty xt11L" of the present Burnt.
grant popull.tion of the three Western
1•ryy Ineee only 46.,,10 had arrly, 1 lu
Canada prior to teat; 16.W striated be.
tween I►1l and 1101: and 2st,4al alone In
the five years between Ian and lYt,
when .the ImullgratIoa polley of the
pftacnt liuvernmeut was in full swine.
It is not a mere aeement that the Can-
adian West under COltreeVikiiVe tale
was a land of the hope deferred that
maketh the heart sickwhile to -day 11
Is a .un,1 of fulfillment.
.The nullray Commission talked et
und,r ti,..-prevtou. Administration be-
came a fact under the Laurier Admin.
rogR HAS REPLACED TALE
or the a nnests In pianists forward. the building
etif►ti •..•• •••• . '.
a tan remit. rtat,w, r remnv,. Yrom t
,e reg m o � retsnts
we knew that for many y•ara the re. the redin of action_
Illustrated by British Prefer-
ence, Filling Up the West
and Many Reforms.
, heract.•rintic of the last
ars. the yearn 'of Liberal •d-
r:Monnet,. t at things have been
very formerly talked about
prn.u, .t. yak_ tote question of the
I .fe p •Per many years
e I ,tk i al ,,,e.. 1 varybody Bald
...laid t,A'a fitting thing to show
' ?r,. irisY,It' :,,r Great Britain In
r„•
Irh,t o. to admit Brltlsh
Ir to riff _IeK k'
,nefactere6 al It lower rate than the
,.r d.,rytio countries. But no -
f•4 ,Soon Yirteen years ago, Mr.
,.,iJ.rti�i► prugllnent -member `of
U•' { opposition. now a judge of
P111 It 1.ourt;-tne,ve a reeolutien
th :tr. r that the. tarp ought to be
frnnee•1 •, t. KI+'e • preference to
EI'✓l t' ,r„n, t:rnit Itritaln. The lean•
r.rt Vc..'-reacituttuw -with an
min,^t. t , rue effect that Canada
4.1 s.” n pteferenne to Great Bi
g.
N,...11" Great Britain gave
preterkee, to. Canada. The amend,
r.1 ,roe ,'nrri•-,T. Zia the revolt was
t ,,, r..untrie. marked time. anal
•.•,,,r4 ...J. done, '
ernes Replaced TO*.
•pra._e _ILS"� Got•ernment as.
t .,
petof 'If end when,.. was
.,arded. and a IeJd, iter ittvp.. step
i taken .-t It, rr-;. prrfereet.e• way
bolt laced un
r x
hook The I.-els:allun •l•
1 t..,. t •ntl•.n and caught the
uf t1... 16rtttah aleupte, and
-o acre- tea ifng if sMSH'(.-
_0 111 the longus!, newapapere
J•I!n ler ,•elebratioo of 1M",
n. ,txe,l up the rltuatton
I el, l..rlrler Government
h all 1.y the horny.' in
• era -le w llh (treat Britain.
was' tear than note
1 :: .... ,,, lu 11,07 It WWI more
, rondred toll/funs. The effect
- r .• volume,' not. oniS'
,ep„tt, into Canada, but of
•ln,:pnrrr'tnta- tiresi,Britain-
of the British
,.. ,,,,n• gram, cheese,
., .l:re, t r.•eult of the
• granted by the
Irul Iadualry rrMrrrlL •
--•_ t':el-Ong,_. tariff wee• Intro -
,t, .• a '1 upper Peed twit br
t., •. .orruwfuiof wall,'
nu-,1slownf 11 oa[y their
la -
n Sot
r
.Skits is what Industrial
t ,•day'. "Uurtng the pas,
rnyoyed xpunding
5,,•rkwww nava been. pool
., • a fav• received' big
seem..; and--peoeluee,.
.•. n' no complaint. (runt
Inn caste a few cents
If. there were no In-
t i;Tttll,tt tmp1T'mentx
rt l w
!'he •
price of farm pro
decide...iy more, •, 1l ,!Urfa. ture•t arth4'•-
_•..r pr.-senc,• of the 1M: -
wherewith to 1-uy.-flu
sasIlt) banks of the
,) ti4luw• tout tt.-y t a, e
TheN.P. wa Intra'-
11.1A14 7 ppro01lees-of 1 r ,xl er-
7 r a' T:7r -'•.•ars the e-Luntry
But In the long ran. as
:•"1 ,hawed, the reaulls
• g The mannfnctur-
., r befog,. enloye4
la,•v hors done Jur-
! !there! Admin.
lomrn:u growth of
Is. itteitry due (m
bitnrt1 1ad utr>',
unite, e
t'"ntry.
tinter... has telt
Impulse The
p..1,1 ONr soden to
r•e, ,.,I n pr t.•etnr of
�t rp
But he /mild re-
,' e In this r seem an 1n
earn fLiberal
t:.,.•.�e a Leen y re of fuI-
WISE PROGRESS
DEMOCRACY
AND LIBERTY
The Principles That Have Guided
and Now Guide the Lib-
eral Party.
EXPLANATION OF SUCCESS
Policy of Opposition Little More
Than One of Negation
and Abuse.
It the Liberal party were mere l> n
political fdttlun, standing only for •
flee or spoils, or even if its claim •
support were airnply the record
pawl achievements and tradltlo,,
-honor and usefulness, there might
reason fur chlialeestioe Iia request f
a further h•are of power. When, ho,
ever, It comes beton the people as the
exponent of sound principles, and the
ic.11ve _yarncy yrulnoting and guiding
successful -national development a, tu-
ally going on, there becomes nutnife-t
the absurdity of the proposal to •
plata It by another party whose p
Is' little more than negation and al
-The ' brogreesive po}itie*F viril-Ho
this new country demands a len:
ship of men who care be' relied. up,.;.
to da things• Wheat -Area the atbet-ir'uty
ra,o.e In the way of national• de -
re o't,nlent; except to continue the great
untiertakinga which they hays criti-
cised and opposed? Noone takes ser-
1ou6Iy Me. Foster's talk about a tun-
.. e. -tits--ittrattw-of Northumber-
a `trlfer 71raF'e iS 4 "11Ts party"
present. except the recollection of Si
John A. Macdonald's petfornlanees,
,The Liberal par ham always stood
ptre 'Saatdou1ap 011.12-reaxlioxd and en .i.1
personal ,liberty. To an earnest ,I.•-
sire
1 -sire for the development and applle e,- i
tion .ei these gnat principles it oer'e.
!te origin and 'emcees: Its history in
Canada, as well a. In (great Britain.
In a history of effective oppos,.
to every repr•sapro, oppressive.
union:lad attempt to•aubvert th.•
fare. and advancement of the comu,ut:
By, in the Interests of • prhvll-ge.1
-elassett - Nowhere have • thhee .g•r•at
principles found fuller exempliffeatIon
than l»she ad,niutstrat4"n of the
tient I)„nllnluu Government.
Hence it le; that In our en.tn.•tit
to -.day, con llnd..uu.. - at factl0u.uo,
element rept•sent \discontent with
our form of rnment, no represen-
tatives oC: sections of the Ol,nlmnn-
icy t c"nslder themselves 1r' -at. -d
nljustice. What a contrast le,
to teepee. la the Partta+nernt of. Ca4-
ada to the 'Legislature of nearly. every
other country In which constltutbmal
government prevails. --
This _Is _,ecautie Canadians are well
governed, prosperous, and sat Jetted
with- the prudent guidance of their
young country's rapid development. It
Is largely because of that large -vision-
ed guidance that ' the Dominion
1s now so attractive to the
bed and_ most intelligent im-
migrants from other Lands. To it we
owe the _filling up ..of nes.:terrltery .
With a population of the finest char
atter -tttnt will malntafn tI, wmM-
nn whish tninetthetn and the remit -
time. that attract then..
The worthy representative and welt I I
e l„
ryvallfb d leader f t Rral
national life 1s the elate:mien echo
now oaks the electors of Canada to
psl.s4 judgment upon his record and
hI. proposals.
1s
1
SIR WILFRID'S SUNNY SMILE."
The Story of the Golden Wes
Did Not Begin Until Laurier and
a Business Administration
Came Into Power.
•
The marreln,ls growth of the Rest
.• • ''�' 1e•••• t1T-t r free -twelve years to 4kli•
stubborn.facts whtch cOnfrmt the C'on-
eervattve cami.aignere. It 4s easy to
se.- that the prosperity of the West is
tie to the fertility 4-1 its gnu. - nnf
wdid tilhy. with Its estraordtnary natural re-
sources,e West. remain for ru
many years unpeopled, • and of Little
practical benefit to- Canada or to theworld? Why, 1n -a -short time after -the
Liberal 'Government came into power,
ltd the ttre•am of Immlgrath>n. -••gin
to flow .in n v•:Iurnl' cornmensdette
w lth the r neurees of the country? The
t saw vtrtnally tiro intrles. 1n 1116
there war one mince, an
stretch . organised territory, thin-
ly pro d • end' cultivated in Little
day there are three Provincea;•vleing
with each other. in population, settle-
ment, and cultivation,` and earth' with
.ptere td''-proepeet.. The • Calgary and
Edmonton' of twig are hardly to he
e,;mpared with the i'algary and F'd-
.. titrlv4wg
towns j�eelr....w _'lr'fiati-w,
even a name twelve rears nr' Th•'re
was One tranteontinentst r',!Iwey In
are three,
the West -in 1616. "'here711•'
day, eagerly .re•kinE for the privilege
of sharing 1n the buretne•e of carrying
the Western groin. .And 'fill the cry
ter-morerailw-ay.. The-• C•tttery
Herald, a Cnn.en-:uh•" papef, is carry -
Ing on, a campaign for more railway.
to `Atheetl-. 1' tet a'. f•. 1. ra for the donald, v:a' Indifferent to the vable,
three traneeentlnental•' WI .I!e fhr new of the West, except from the point of
Provinces, are progr..+tnr, at thl.. tre- v1• -w -of military defence. It can be
e e
menden. parr, \lanitoba lr rmt IgK shown that the bringing In t [h West
emir behind: 'Thr eplendld t•Ite (1 wile a plank In the platform of a i.ih-
t.'ll>,nlpee 10 an '.Meet T.•'-ou "feerhing rh(Icnnventtort held to Toronto 1n 1167
the pro•)peritr nf• Manitoba But we live neither in 11:,7 nor in 1412,
hut. to 1904. we are denims with I
the present. and with the work done In
the development of the West In, the
tart 'twr re--yesrar--tnerr - the- preent ,
Administration. If the Government
trod felted in -the Ts'eat. tit, exe(iser.routtt
have saved it from public eondemna-'
In the tare of enidnetiti ane! dlsrouraite- lien. A' It hoe enceeeded beyond all
meat. It ran 1,e phown that up to the expertatinn,"►t will receive credit from'
time tit Confederation Sir John Ma,- all Lair -minded. men,
d a great
tlgur' n of nnnllgrat lot:, of homestead
erttriee. mf population, of the Western
yield of wheat and other crops, have
been rep"atedl2 when. and H,. tit s
wonderful slury. But 1t Is not timee-
r.ery ter -prosy'•.. 1, -enol
growth of the 'Meet by !tattetice.
Anve,nr who vtotted the Wept to Mot
and again In 11AS will fell ypu that he
d,,lrlrt;, few and far het trren. T ,
1',. 55 eel \t eel ..heed.
, • e'1nada flit It.
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What There is to Show for It3
Where Increases in Expenditures Have Taken Place 2
and the Returns Obtained Therefrom.
Expenditures on the public
services of the 1'e,uutt \' ha \'e been in: re8 e(1
under the !.:twice ljovernnient,
This, in varying form's, is one. of the chief charges preferred by the
Opposition against the Administration of the day.
The fact is admitted. Expe11(litiires have grown. The amount spent on
the ordinary running services is larger than it WitA twelve years ago; more
has been spent, also, on what is cans!! '1l;apital aeeouut"--i.e.. the construction
of permanent public \VI'rks.
But have the people been burdened by the taxation imposed 1
Has the future of the country been darkened by the piling on of a
load of debt ? Are there returns to show for the money spent ?
'These are the questions in whichthe eountry
is chiefly interested. 'Chose
are the questions to Whieli answers are herewith siiltilllttl'tI.
THE ORDINARY SERVICES
• Let us take first a few of the ordill:lry tt'I'V ees I.1' 1111.e-Itlllitry and see
,rht invreasrs-ir
a-uat-haiir torten liitaf•e-111-t•kitwty. ---
1t the app•:•, 1e to be reel' to hie-
tory,.11 can easily he shown that (ienrge
Brown:the leader of the Lidera! party,
was Inc one puna. man who for twen-
ty years. upheld the advantage" of -the
West anti ❑rets-ttir-tiwtow cont- Can
oda it can by atnw•n that he did thin
We! T41E RANCtir•"AN
Tise TRAY'(€='_
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T14E SuRvEYOR
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f e1g'1t cartoons drawn by-
tv
Insist on seeing
THE
PROSPECTOP THE
MINER
TOE LuriftERMAN
CONQUERING OF WESTERN CANADA.—NO. 2.—THE SCOUTS.
Mr, C. W. Jeffreys, representing the Conquest of Canada for ctvlllzatlon and fhr nen who ore engaged In It.
W `tftEekj
Stanfield's
tlesbrinkabk
Underwear 190
Paint Eng on moleskin, Nine, 11.
Stevenson, Mrs. It. Mellivain : paint-
ing on bolting cloth, Miss I4ytnington,
Mrs. Stevenson : collection of oil
paintings, Mri., Griffin, Mrs. Steven -
so) : collection of water colors, Mies
Evelyn Hayden, Mien Livingston :
pencil drawing, Miss Livingston, Mrs.
Howrie : crayon drawing, MIN
Evelyn Hayden, Miss Livinptnn
collection of pen and ink sketchee,
.450.0' 1,1 ZMV$, .'114!(-
1 anetwgen 5itiver, Penetwng, Midland
rand Lakdflsld. Madawaska to Depot
Harbor, *eerie 0 ('obremik, Lindsay
to Halihindon, Nharhot Lake via K.
& 1'. Itailnliy, and point', trona Severn
to North Bay inclusive, Itetrtrn
limit on all tickets Patunlny, Decem-
ber Sth, 1RRMt, or until dome of naviga-
tion, if earlier, to pointa reached by
steamers. Full information from any
Grand Trunk ticket deotr,
THE POSTAL
SERVICE.
The expenditure on
the postal sert•iee in the
nine months ending
with March, 1907, wits
$300,000 greater than
foe the whole year lit
1896. But this does not
mean an added burden,
for the people. 'The do-
mestic rate on' Tette
as actually be •re-
eed in interval
fr t n' to two tents,
letter ean'bn sent
from Vancouver to- Lon-
don„ -day .for--two-
thirda a charge im-
posed fo sending,from
fior`onto- Richmond
!fill in 1896
i
IMMIGRATION,
The expenditure n
immigration 'in 189
was $120,000. In 1906
it was $442,000. Large:
ly as a result of the
BUBS{IDIES
greater 4)1111 a y the
number of farms in
Western Canada in-
creased from 54,000 in
1901 to 120,000 in 1906.
YIN UTNE
The sum of $4,°3,00(!
was transferred in. the,
form of subsidies ?rem
the Dominion treasury.
to the 'treasuriesl UVt the
rariL t' • root 1,'
1894 the short year
07 (nine months)
the.. 10!115 tiff transferred
$6,745,10'01. Part of
the inere'ase was due to
the creation of two new
Provinces. fart- elf it
followed upon nu in-
e•re'aFP ill the _alibailtirs
tet the older Provinces
A portion of the surplus
of which !Ir. Whitney
boasts conies from this
source.
AGRICULTURE.
The outlay by the
Agricultural D e part-
ment was '$210,000 for
the full year of 1896.
In the nine months
forming the short fiscal
year of 1907 no less
than $625.000_w•ai ipent
a►
y the eae -depart
-
nt. But in the same
ti • .,, and partly as the
•reeu of the inereaaelt
fylen' g; the value of
farm e , erts increased
`>
by 41 . t ,(>00,
LIGHTHOUSE
SERVICE. '-
(ln, lighthe„t.r a n�1�1Il-d
euli-serf',"• �Ilili3O(lp
was spent in 1"9h. In
the 141lla n444
With \lnrv•h, 1907, $2.-
(k 41) 004) was expended,
.1s a - result of the in-
creased outlay in littht-
iul , eonpled with the
ltc4 )al•1{ing anti improve,.
rnel.t Ill CUr waterways,
the `t. leatvreenee route
is capturing trade'whieh
formerly went via New
ti Boston. ostotl. Moregrain passedthrtlugh
:.1,ntrnnl ill the last
three. months than
through the eomhinwd
rit'al Amrriean porta in
the same time.
MORE FOR QUARAN-
TINE SERVICE.
•i•he craft of the ne-
t ;„nal quarantine ger
slip has grown frotn
$95,000 in 1896-tn
_•$624,000 lin 1906.. Could
money 'be better spent
then in guarding
again., the inreetillrr of
disease' from Ntart ait-i
The ` clone mf th,• 6,04
year of the r)„mlnlon w-,`•
(hanged In Iso; from .1,.
to tfarj'h. Thus the Putt•
nlpnt of expenditure for
the beet year for which •.1 -
Wird flgurea are mailable
, oe, er,e sire month.. only.
THE LARGE EXPENDITURES
The ehief explanation of the mere!!Na,�in the total- disbursements .,t• 1 hp
eountry is found- in the outlay on great public works—works which \till 1,I..,t'
lasting benefit to the country.
•
PUBLICLY -OWNED
RAILWAYS.
. Between 11306 and the
end of the fiscal year of
19117 o\ er S27.000,000
was expended on enn-
ntrnction account of the
Intereolonial and con-
neeted railways.
Up to the end of the
smile year over 418,000.-
000 had been spent
'won the portion of the
Transenntlnental o wu-
--Pd by the people.
The spending of this
money has not only ad-
ded to the eountry 'or
transport tit ion fai•iliti es,
and so helped general
trade;, it has also in -
(Teased the v a l v e of
publicly -n W n e d re -v-
enue -producing proper_
AID TO PRIVATE
RAILWAYS.
In addition tm t h
sums spent on puhlie•ly-
owned railways. ..ver
$ISi00n,0(0)has been ex-
pended in the fortis of
subsidies to private rail-
waye. Some of these
roads are providing
transportation facilities
for territory which oth-
ervt•tse would still be
unneeupied. As a enn-
sertuenee of the liberal
policy pursued by the
1;,,vernntent, the length
r all the railwas in
i'annda has inereetlsed
from 16,27(1 11111es •s i n
1 >iJU�to 2.2.452 in - 11W)' .
an t total of the
capital i ested in rail-
ways from 590,1001,(0)0
le, $141i:ea01i:1a(Mat---
CANAL EXPENDI
TUBE.
111 er 4{20,(010,0(0) was
spent in the ten yearn
eliding with 1901' on
thl tit. Lawrence, Wil -
Gal turg, W e I land.
Trent, and Soulanget
eanala- t expenditure
whit+, w h the im-
proved light g service,
is helping to take our
waterways the great
euIn'tlere'i 111 arts of
North .tnleriea. A out
two-thirds of the ea
1111 expeiirlitnre on the
Stoll/nitres ('anal. whirh
hat matte it • navigable
fttr heavy freighters,
lung token place under
the lr r e ., til a;oOern.
men; - -
WITHOUT ADDED BURDENS
An eeolnplishing all this, only tri! . Ater five million dollars has
lu'Ipn added to the public debt, ill the previous e1e 1 , ears over sixty - two
millions was added to the national obligations.
While, too, more money has been spent. the rat t. Af taXatiran has aetn-
ally been lessened. in 1896 the average rate of (Attstittus.Nation on dutiable
imports was laeai'ly 30 per rent.; in lirl)(li it \vav 26 1-3 per rent, More money
bus been collected, but ‘lith less burden upon the taxpayers. "t parallel case
would be afforded by ,a growing town which, while net -natty lowering the rate
on the dollar, increased its total revenue as a result of additions to the' number
of taxpayers anal taxable progterty.
The money has been spent, but the country has obtained returfta
for the spending and. the public burdens have been lcasened rather \
than increased. ,
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