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STRIKING SNAPSHOTS OF SIR WILFRID LAURIER TAKEN DURING HIS ONTARIO CAMPAI GN.
STORY -111- BRIEF OF
LAURIER'S RECORD
Some of the Great Reforms Which
Help Explain Canada's
Prosperity-
GORE88IVE POLICY
THECOMMANOER
N C@11EF
CANADA'S PROGRESS
IHAS BEEN UNIQUE
Efforts of Opposition to Belittle
Dominion's Prosperity Not
Based on Fact. •
REST OF WORLD IS BEHIND
In Every Dep:- ment Which Af-
fects Lives of People Has
Had Results.
The postage on litters Mailed from
one = to anesther to Canada has
.]r' ,bg-.' -14141 is and the
rateon •city drop letters by one-half.
That 1r wh t a Liberal Government
Pdone to t. ltttslte !liminess and so-
rorreepondence
The rateon len. rs to acid from the
r.iit.;r'nf. 'the lirngire l:ee been out
down to the aom.-et,clevl, and Brit -
goods eht,•ring t'ah,ada pay one -
\rd I. in ('uatoma duties than fee-
gou,11.aro compelled ro contrt-
�. ;:e' TTi:TT fFi enc'euragernent g1v-
', J' i, Liferal. Goyernrnent to sane
r
IG,;•• t I , r tn,
*writer rate, onhundr,-.1. r,t
..,,.,.. ut r lway has Noes redued fry.
ten J • r cert tinct freight rate,. have
`been lowered 11 over (:,.nada That is
rt o•.hat Liberal Government
hae done In the gy of stimulating In-
- 4erna'° mm -rot,
The t. LaisTence canals • have been
deepened to fourteen set, and an etfl.
meatainstrm of llght:r4 installed- The
result Is that the r7ana.dtan route Is
now monopolizing the wheat trade of
the continent, tied the coat, of carry-
ing our eheese and baron to\\the Brit-
Ish market has Nem-greatly'rbduoed.
Intercolonial Extended.
llrir:gir..g the Intertv,lonlal to Mont-
real how Mrd” the people's ;railway a
competitor with private railways,
In he moving of freight from the head
M t. lakes to the sea. grid from Ball -
fax to 'Port Arth'sr.
The -b 'ding of the Transcontinental
is creatln a leew Ontario and New
Quebec In he north. And to adding
- benuttlr-ter-tlength of -the Wasters
Provinces of 4 'nfederation.
With the Iia,. ,rat$on of a eyatetn
Of rural man dellsti. new being car-
ried out. the taotatlint the term win
disappear and•rurat a • urban life will
-- ' be indts.otebly'" er, both
s•eclally and. commented! and to the
Mdventage of both.
Under the agkr. airs end. • the
policy of tbn pr••eent Admin tion
tree.- haw expensed 4a avaef .tel
aryl new lire has been infested int• the
trier$°' r;e r,.mm.re,
,r eY; r•+ .! farm prMlue a Merl.
f +r tie r.;n.• n hh
on•. ending with March.
J9^.. weee-eXT..f1er..0e/ irerater than for
the whole_yearof 1996.
Ti total s=port ef, ranael1 an pro-
tnrre1.A
need by eltoM 01,6 to the
east •,•: eh•e year., am compared with an
`•.lneren.n of telees•nen In
+• the twenty -
!Ret y• are pre%loi.. •
6,000 Mi+arof -Railway
• ince even y -sore knell tnil.titliaeii•h.'rn
ed,lerl\to the Irhgth of rasiwn.. In Can-
aria an f19e,e0iinn0 to the capital In-
ye•tt'd I came.
Ili ,five •fen ter nnrnM. 41,larina to
the tete. inti been
Inerro.ed fr' m 74(77 to 1:0,496,
to five 'retie•. nearly 17.4.000 Immi-
*•ttimil--nr-tarme :n
the. i'e*t.
Skilled farmer• br,mxht Int, the
r'amntlan west fro_ -th. 1'nitrd States
:. rtnttllte
f.'Inw. add to
the wealth of.theDe e.n -
1n five yeare the nil nf citherlinn
feet ri••• ',mnh,ying five hand. or
rm,re• h:.. heen I' -reused. rem ?dor
hundred and eighty-one .o ee -en hen-
tl n•vl sly a•,) nor -hell toll) n dol.
tarp
ern ern nrr.•• f,.rnvr
• Factories Expand. ,.
In f,v- grays the amount pall in
Were.. anti wac,• In ih..e same far,
eerie. ha• Incr-..-.-1 from $ 1t,:49,noo
to 114.1'"
Twelve years •go; under • Gov-
ernment containing "a nest of trai-
tors,' the country was engaged (n
race and creed strife, trade was
stagnant, and our people were pour-
ing into the United States,
To -day, ander an •bfe, progressive
Government. peace reigns, cen,meres
Is expanding, agriculture flourishes,
•ed the exodus is from, net to, the
United States,
half of the director. by Vice president
J•111eM Mallungh and Secretary Rohert
elcllwain, AL'. Mallough toneetthne
Mr. Bailie with a handsome moron
chair and Mr. Meilwain r.vading the
following midi taw ;
i eeee,man, th•4. MA, in*
Me. V.1. *40(1.1►,
Dungannon.
Atw. The directors and friends of the 1'/un•
gannon Agricultural Sonl.ty do hot••h. dear.
to •.pr... their appreciation of the .ernes.
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* -ew tea.
THE CONQUERING OF WESTERN CANADA,• -NO, 8. THE, ied. But to say that the business of
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. the world has been advancing at this
A /sties of • %t' esrtnnns. drawn by fir. . fit-. Je!freys, teprnenting the prodigious rate 1a an assertion that
nquest of ('& a fur Clvtllsatlon a nd the men who aro engaged at 1t. ,a.ill not he made by careful students
of the world's advancement
A New Canadian Spirit.
Rut the history of Canada In the
last twelve years is not to be studied
in statisttes alone. Many things have
contributed to make It a unique period,
which historians will study as they
study- the-Weedresponetble
Another Triumph of Liberal Administration to be Found in Manage- government was grants -d, the period
when the Provinces were federated.
ment,of the Intercolonial—Leaks Have Been Stopped the period when the boundaries of
Canada were extended to the Paclflc
— Road on Commercial Basis. Ocean. The growth has been so mar•
veluus aa to change the whole outlook.
and to infuse a new spirit into Cana-
.. - tans, We may dispute over the
already sen manifested In a happy question whether Canada has be-
serlee of urplusea glace 1996. come a nation according to the law
Parti nship- Discouraged. and the constitution, but Canada 1.
The tine results of Liberal ad• surely a nation In tact, or la rapidly
min1st rat Ion are\not perhaps so im- approaching that status.
portant as those Of another cha• racter. The preferential tariff wawa meas-
ure of tariff reduction; It greatly stlm-
Our Trade in 12 Years Has In-
creased by 175 Per Cent.—
Unprecedented Showing.
It 1s argued on the Opposition side
that the progress of Canada In the
Last twelve years is merely a feature
of the general progress of the world.
One would like' to believe that the
world aa a whole had made such mar-
velous mermen an is indicated by thls
argument For Ipetance, In the last
twelve yeah the trade of Canada has
been Increased by about tour hundred
millions, or 175 per cent- If the trade
of the principal nations of the world
has Increased by 176 per cent. In the
last twelve years, the tact Das es-
caped the notice of the expert statis-
ticians.
The numtter of passengers' carred'
by the railways last year wain more,
that double the number carried to 1896.
The tonnage of freight carried was
increased by I60 per cent, The bank
deposits were more than trebled. The
number of letters carried was nearly
trebled. There may be a few countries
In which thb--pf hens has been rival -
NO PARTISANSHIP NOW
ON NATIONAL RAILWAY
ft may he a fldidll dmitted that the
Intercelonitl has never been a paying
prep.Itlnn. Judged by commercial
standards. It was not bout Beth that
end In view. fe was constructed to
serve the purpenen of Confederation•
and wax an esa.ntial part of tie corn
pact between the Cpper and Lower
Prnt•lnc.a. Without Ile
Confederation
could not have been anytl4ng
more than • political an sentimental
unlea:- - The concrete eteritent would
have been lacklzit. and tee Vast eora-
merc. which L now carried' on be.
twee n Ontario. and the...Mae3Nt a•v-
nrea would have been Ilmifed tt the
e liangenTiat were practicable du]ng-
the nnth. of open navigation by wa7
of th Si, Lawrence,
Situation Misunderstood.
This nit anion will me be ea sunned.
Tet It is generally enderatood In
the Proven west of Queher There
the feeling that if the
l• nndnubtedly
tnt'reo!nnlal doe not pay it ought to
be made to do 's It has cost (10
i weed, of $90,e0n,600,
nil the snstalned
*titer? c� or itiy3liecZ. Tush nDon
para. Investment l• vie .d with Im-
patience. Cnder these cumetances
i ...1... 1 . - .ante Rtrerrtlr at Ratbite nt
mlernsnagrment, of graft •n partisan
i favorttlam. To tens.• who do n
the factn it may sem that the
t know
ager
-ft cannot be dented that during all the ulated thought upon tet general ques-
years between 1676 and 1891 she Inter- tion of preferential trade within the
eoh,nlal was not regarded so .much as Empire. But It aleo did much to tn-
a public trust al a valuable piece of Ilia"' rthe eommerclal freedom of Can -
Partisan tnaehlaery. Politics came In ada, and its liberty to make commie -
at every point When an election oc- clal arrangements within and beyond
eurre4 o
thusands of men were carried the Empire, having acquired complete
over (hellne ••n passes; the •mployee self-government In domestic affairs,
of the road were In many cases active Canada is step by step acquiring con -
campaigners; promotions and prefer- trot osier her relations with foreign
aimsee--weiree-Interwinr to he the reward countrlMa This. is being done with the
of effeetR•e services to the party; the -t ull consent and approval of the Brit -
utmost demnra7lzation--in- this regard, lab Government. and this consent and
approval are In accord with an en-
Lghten.-d view of the world-wide In-
terestn of the Empire. It is a good
trair.irg for a young nation to manage
!tin own International affairs if a mis-
take is made, It is better that we
extending to every branch of the ser-
vice, prevailed; the men were under
constant eeplonage as to their polltical
sympathies. Thee. •re hard thing,.
to say, but they are amply sustained
bye the records.
All this hal been changed. The .m- shmIId blame our own public men than
piny.. of the intetenlonlal are as free burn with Impotent rage against the
today In respect of their political pubttcc men of United Kingdoms
opininnit as are the employes of any
other railway or any Industrial eatabthe United
in the Dominion. In 1900 Above all, that which marks out
they were yelven a rlasetftestlon end Caned& fcr dlatlnctlon In the history of
+eh.dal. '"""4"'" --woelm' neinmetteslt7 , the twit des ed,' le the development of
end widen In Identical with that of the West. To find a parr,,L•l for this.
the r'anadian Pacific and Grand Trunk, It would be necessary to go back to
From one end of the line to the other some ptrlod In the history of the
every man la the aervlee of 44. llov- L-nitrd States In the nineteenth
ernment rellway kd sus that hte will be centore, to the migration from the
dealt with nn his merlfe: that h4. pro original States along the Atlantic to
ni exon view-• haye nothing whatever the Mississippi vale y, or to the second
T11r7-eitaT'hR-17--if8rn• migra,lor, to the N-.rth-wes6-aast-taw
Irately emancipated from the condition■ Pacific ocean. In the three.14st yearn
which eurrn,,nded him prier to 1666-_„f:
aL4ltservative rule the Immigration
ire othet, ounces, We Teeing on tee toter- into t Canadian tt'pIR M`ilf3g:r!1t T)i'
nlrentnl Anes not affect hie freedom In the there yearn ,1904, 1005. and 1906, It
spree of hie vote In the slightest de- was 44.•,,560. Between 1901 and 1906
g r e. �hedoubledtiendon t•fItthist probably- est wan nn w
A Fair Argument. ear -
dose upon a million. But numbers.
a "wraclrn'e 1t nnght to he alt- ekne cannot tell the tale: The charac-
ter of the country has vtrtually chang-
34, 1n hang. ef.. the Interenlonlal
■d done o more than to
Development of tea West.
cal rnntr,.l, and t'. �.t In other ban. a
Levitt would he waltzed. .
II'/eases Mese Re Kelpie.
i Comparison as to Administration.
A fair teal of admini,trntInn would
Ihr
fennel In mraauring the relative
I aurrre. of the two perste,. In dealing
late .the situation under thepe 00-
e,oId•,tte rendltlonn. Which of th.rn
has displayed the better skill in sob.
darting the huelnees or the ro • At
ole.-. two or three atrIkln acts are
rugge.tr.l From 1x7,. wn to 1(96
1t here wen• if praetirei enhroken re-
knnl .,f d, fiche, the aRRrrgatr p1
w feh ran Int9.:-thany mllllnn• Liefirits
lin nrrateed shier 109e. but on the
who • there hap M•en n material 1m-
prIvwhi,'nt to repents. Three capable
' Affnnetere 1n the 1.,herai rrglmr_gvth.
r, A. el RIAtr tion, ti. it. fimmrrson, and
/ten (i fs. anthem -have Ani -.much
to Ixx_ w-nier _and 'batter.3nua4+al.n for
the' cArrylnst on of the lnter.•olonlal,
the full effects et which will he re-'
nttze4 In }sere to come. They bare
1,•,•know.
Bout two-year-old colt in claws 4
1 J Irmo* and carriage) -- Ales.
l ,tuna. Carlow.
Judaea - •Ilion. (Sundry, liodericli ;
D. 5IcCurvie, Clinton ; M. .I. parr,
(balerich.
I Idie; hitching context--Mis,Blake,
MwnkIng Mips Promos, (ilderich
Hest colts ',tract by "The Pope' -
1
n le they
would• be en net to public approba-
Oen. Rut the have don• meek more.
They have plat the road on as strict
a commercial bas as has been pee.
sible tinder the el nmstanees. They
hat. Improved the lue nf the line
as a pier.• of proper They have
made It one of the Sea equ*pl,rd ■nd
heat enndueted linos nn t •■ continent.
They. have stopped leaks, nd Intro.
dne.d reform in a word, they have
shown themeely capable and above
repreach. They h been true t•
their trust.
ed. The populated arra is no longer
a trlhge along the southetn border,
erred by one railway. It has gone
northward tour hundred miles, and
.tilt the movement Is northward, .n
that the next great movement will
be the peopling of the Pen, a mem.
dlstrlct. Two great new Pr -wince], have
been created. Three transcontinental
railway companies are eagerly compet-
ing for the privilege of carrying the
Western Reath. The rnllway to Hud-
•t-n'n Ray, lona regarded win a dream
of romance, le likely poen in be a
realized fact. A new Canada han
srlsen between thelakes and the
Rocky Mountain&
vs se 5.q. ,ro. m ,-. p.a. ... • n ,.,..,.,.,
Mina Tessier Dreaney ; Lo*4m rade pre.
*styes, Mrp. H. Morris, Mrs. A. Ku k,
Judge Mir,. .1. C. Dllillin, lis Iia t.
Vegetables and Resits.
Ali `• variety not.at,.•s, C. W. Taylor,
V. Watson, lar, Kikpsi tick ; cab-
bage, W. 11. McCracken, iia, Alton ;
hissed beets, W. H. McCracken, J,
McDiarmid ; improved sugar Meets fol
feeding, W. H. McCracken, R. Moll
TWO TRADE PERIODS
IN CANADA'S HISTORY
Comparative Stagnation for 28 Years.
Stupendous Expansion in Twelve
-- This chapter institutes a comparison between the
record of Canada's growth in trade in the 28 years
ending with 1896, and the 12 years ending with 1908.
Canada's Aggregate Trade, 1868, $112,500,000
Canada's Aggregate Trade, 1896, 217,000,000
Increase in 28 Years -- ' $104,500,000
From the time of Confederation until 1896, the direction and eontri,l
of the Canadian Government was, with the exception of four ,years, in con-
servative.hz}nds. During the w-hoTe ofthat period -TGs aggregate area
ila(...tri
trade, based on domestic exports and goods entered for consumption, advanced
from $112,500,000 to 217,000.000, This vas an ine-rease of $104,500,000, or at
the rate of three and three-quarter millions a year.
Aggregate of Canada's Trade,
1896 ... $217,000,000
Aggregate of Canada's Trade,
1908 598,000,000-
T
Increase in TWELVE Years $381.000.000
The twelve years which have passed since '96 afford, a most striking
contrast--te--the-yearsprior to 'iasis-- -first period our aggregate trade
increased by a little over $100,000,000. Iii the second, and much shorter period,
the increase was well on to $400,000,000. Against au average annual increase
of three and three-quarter millions in the first period there has been ant uua1
increase of nearly $32,000,000 in the second period.
'l'he story of -our Iota
One Period in Our Export Trade : trade is duplicated in that
Exports Canadian Products,
1868
Exports Canadian Products,
1896
$ 45,500,000
106,000,000
Increase in 28 Years - $60,
or an average of less than two and a
600,000
of the export part of it—'
the record of the sales of
Canadian products in
other countries. In 18911
the exports of Canadian
products amounted to only
0106,000,000, an . increase
of $60,500,000 in '28 years,
quarter millions a year.
Compare the foregoing_
record for a 28 -year per-
iod with the 12 -year per-
iod which has occurred
sin's'. The average annual
increase in exports in the
first period was a little less
than two and a quarter
millions a year; the aver-
age annual increase in the
second period, nearly twelve
Another Period in Our Export,Trade
Exports Canadian
Products, 1896 .. $106,000,000
Exports Canadian
Products, 1908 • • 247,000,000
Increase in 12 Years - $141,000,000
million dollars a year.
THE TOTAL INCREASE IN OUR EXPORT TRADE IN THE
LAST 12 YEARS HAS BEEN VERY MUCH MORE THAN DOUBLE
THE TOTAL INCREASE IN THE PREVIOUS 28 YEARS.
Again, which will you have : Unity, progress, and de-
velopment under Laurier ? or strife, stagnation, and
depression such as blighted the country in the dark
days before '96 ?
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