Show i CANADA PLANS TO B BE B REAL REA U RIVAL OF UNITED STATS STATES By Frederic J tJ Haskin AKADA Is ambitious to tf become bt be ome a of at the United States tates and the she bravely bravel announces her h herself CANADA self to this effect By this ultimatum it i ivery is Ia very raid p that our neighbor bor is biting off a avery aery avery very ery large mouthfuL The wonder of at it is Ia that she tie elect herself to such a big job A strange fea tea feature feature ture tUN tf of t the situation kg lis that Canada expects to draw from us UH the strength with which to make this rivalry Arr money and American settlers are responsible for tor the Canadian boom No one in the Dominion denies df nl this u fact yet our neighbors make no DO secret Ferret of ot a n growing feeling of pf hostility b IUt toward us WI This I where the toe Canadians Cand are making the mistake of their lives If It they make it their policy polley to rub Uncle Sara Ram the wrong way of o the tile grain grata it means that tbt they th y fire are letting a contract for trouble treble It wilt will be wisdom for Canada to train with the Americans Americana folly tolly for her hf to eo antagonise them Whatever Wha lever may have bare been the causes that thai bed tl the United States to become more powerful than t n Canada the feet fad remains that they t are more powerful Canada is certainly not in a position to do the tile chip on shoulder act with the United States Utter all allIs Is i said Raid and done dolle the thA real interests of or the Canadians CU mp me 1 If with 11 i th the Americans even more than with the American money and American men mea are now BOW doing d ing for or Canada what England never did and a 4 never nevers ver s ill lu developing do the resources of the UN Sen Sentiment Sentiment Sentiment is poor food for the stomach and m after all ail allany allI any tny I ny grudge the Canadians Canadian may have against t their Arn American rte an cousins is only skin deep Fo contend rt that the Yankees were Wele hostile to toEn England En lan 1 during the Boer war This was wu not as much hated for the English h as it was the American Amerl love of ot n rt fair air fight fI ht und and sympathy for tor the under dog dor If It Can Canada ada should become involved in trouble with England there would rally around the Canadian standard more moreA American A volunteers than there would be fighting men in the Dominion In such an It event it is I certain that thata Canada a nada would get the larger part of or her army ann from among arong the people she e is Ia trying to persuade herself henelt Fhe he is Ie hostile to tol l Mr John W Dafoe Defoe the eminent Canadian journal J 1 t says nays Ia s that the feeling of hostility in Canada for tor fori torI forthe the i ho he Americans Am can easily Uny be over estimated and lid that the tte constantly co increasing commerce between the two countries s will eventually be too much for the poll poli politicians if d s whose business it is to keep existing antip antipathies athies athle awake This is the sane hopeful view Canada Canad vm trill w b great if she be courts the good win will and prestige pe If f the United States If she ahe sets herself henel up against the strength and power of oC her great neighbor nel bl or she will willbo willbe bo be crushed The weak cannot possibly po hope to suc BUC successfully f contend against the strong Kroft In the tile past put Canada has hit almost stood still and oil od account of ot h hr 11 r lack of consequence has not figured to any an great i extent one onn on way or the other Now that she Is coming forward it will be suicidal for her at the outset to competition that cannot help but be too p strung l rung for tor her After all what objection do the Canadians really hold hId the United States A slight difference in some rome forms of law particularly the administration ad of ot justice tIe and a dislike for tor the mixed character of our great fir cat population Canadian law is 1 good In some re respects it Is superior to American Justice but 1 ut on the theu whole u hole our nul laws have hit e produced better results the greatest country in the world There Js Je certainly certain I truth In the contention that we have some population which t is i bad hut but along with this thia undesirable element t we have ive ae attracted d sufficient ing population to enable us to accomplish what we never would have had we toot stool still sau as the Canadians f have done It takes people to develop p resources and create wealth The bad bed goes with the that u in 1 every everything ery thing and to get as a much moth desirable de population tIeD as we WB have we wt can very v well afford to bo put up with the dill die disagreeable agreeable element e ment that came with it These There e are the main loain objections the Canadian CaDa Ian always alwa raises against American ean institutions Int He Be holds holda up the trivial things and R nd loses sight of the big bI points General results are what count and there is no getting around the sum eum total when the balance Janee is Ie struck Q 1 V Emi Emigrant g gAo rant Camp Gamp IA lit IS Canadian Northwest A R Farm Scene In Manitoba Ao z a i w S R ts c t tY ty Y y r 5 1 r agues 5 r wet i r A I W 1 3 F 1 th J 1 5 t ty r y F l I e f w q qt y t Main Street of Winnipeg City Hall hail in Winnipeg W 4 The Is c claim they pre are getting g taa I Iu enough u to suit t themselves and are are realty do q a awell well or better bett than if ff they were a part INt ef of the ue United States It is III said Hid their trade would have been Deen deflect deflected ed eel to the Ue American centers This is ill not sound argument argument argument ment because if it were so Chicago would have pre prevented prevent vented vent the growth of ot Minneapolis and St Paul Pul San Sait Francisco eco of Seattle etc The truth in the matter is that Canada is getting along on a lunch when it might Justas J jest enjoying e a square aai mewl mel Its Ita people are not DOt satisfied They are a as aa m ambitious as anyone ODe to bet better better ter WI their condition and are aft moving heaven and earth to get England to adopt the protective help them out But they are barking up the Ute wrong tree What had hd England ever done for them in return retura for all their loyalty What can England En land do as compared to the tH United States Not very much mach During DurIn the recent congress congre s or o the tile chambers en of ot com corn merce mette of or the th British Empire help MIA fed in III Montreal Star Sir William Holland X M P told the Canadians You must remember it is Ia easier euler for Canada te to give ghe ghea a preference than tun for Great Britan BrUan to give one Can Canada Canada Canada ada has only oaly to take off on the coping copin so to speak from frets her tariff wall in favor of Great Gret Britain But Great Britain must first put up a 8 wall wll before Defore she like can take anything a off for tor Canada To do this means mearia a revolution revolution revolution tion in her fiscal arrangements arran The lM mate main objection Is that protection w s ld 1 te the u cost of production In the first ant place It Ik would add to the price of Sod i stuffs mule aa Canada grea as her wheat resources are only furnishes fun us with witha a minor mIDor portion of 01 our wheat w When C wheat wheatfields wheatfields fields are fully developed of at course coune the tariff on food foodstuffs foodstuffs stuffs will wiD not DOt mean so eo much But just lust now bOW it meats mean me higher wages Then again some mme of the colonies are areas as a much m h interested in is raw material as in wheat Australia for example sends aea us WI vast quantities q of o wooL drool In fairness to them raw material would also alito have to be taxed which would again add acid to the UN of production The rile mills that are closed in Great Britan today are not suffering so 80 much from foreign fore competition as from the scarcity of raw material The small crop of sf cotton and the abnormal speculation sp in is it caused ca the be beC cotton C mills to shut down dowa Many of the woollen mitts minify have baTe become idle because the drought m to Australia lessened ened the supply of wool Great Britain has more hostages on Ute tue snit side of o Ore trade today than she ever had bad She has ass stood oct tar tor tary years y ra as a free tree trade country and ad for the theat principles of at peace Can she abe afford by setting up a aill hostile tsp tar tariff iff ill to provoke a tariff war with other nations She would be the worst sufferer in such aach a war r ora 4 ar ara a commercial war la is not very far removed from a aliar war liar of arms armB armsT I T am not opposed to protection for tor Canada a aI What I contend for Is 1 that each part of the empire should adopt that trade policy polley which w h would best beet beetown construe conserve Its own owl own Interests We In Great Britain do not DOt interfere In InSa te Sa your tariff matters No more would you wish t to t to us what our tariff tart tars law Jaw should beThe be beThe The TIte destiny of Canada Caneta if from no other consideration cat tion than proximity is with wit the United States If 1 te s true that it can no more afford to fight at us dally than to start any other kind of hostility But our oar neighbors ael will not always alwa hold out against us ys The pioneers we are rending ending over ov to help get the wealth from Canadian soil will 11 do more to unite unit the two peo pea peoples pies ples than anything any thine else ellie During the month of at June Jana this year jr American settlers went ent Into western Canada They came from the following follow in states Mm tip assets oa 1127 North Dakota 11 South Dakota t 38 Iowa Illinois Massachusetts etts ITS 17 Montana Wisconsin 16 Michigan an ill Nebraska 93 II 3 Utah W 70 Wyoming 54 it Indiana tt 40 Missouri 35 30 Colorado c n II Mexico 2 New York 27 21 Kansas X 24 Ohio ow IS New Jersey Terse 17 1 Pennsylvania 14 Idaho 14 If Washington W Wash Washington ington 13 Oklahoma 12 1 Texas 7 Maine 5 i Florida 4 Vermont 4 North Carolina 3 2 New Hampshire 3 I is Rhode Island 3 I 3 S Arisona 2 Z Indian In Tit Ter Territory men 2 Tennessee 1 Connecticut 1 Maryland 1 I Georgia 1 and Arkansas 1 Tire TIle large number from Minnesota and North forth Da Dg Dakota beta kota does doe not BOt indicate that these the e states are betes DeIra As a populated or r that their wheat crops crop in tn UM the tame e ebe be smaller ner It means men that farmers far mom SON sending their Ir sons across acmes acro the border for more m Ie rose roseand r and aDd that the worlds supply of cereals will he be hec heThe to ID creased c The land laws Ia we of Canada Canad do not provide for the taking of homesteads by women unless they mey are widows with children depending upon them but bat In a number of other respects Canadian land laws Ia are of alb 0 greater peater benefit to the Intending settler ettler notably in two t particulars a father having sons eons eligible for home bome homesteads Meads teada may have ha e his sons live with him and Dd the theare are not bound to take up their HIIr residence ft on OIl their owe w land If It a homesteader home desires to purchase land not adjoining his hla homestead hot but In III the vicinity possibly six m miles he may reside r oa sa the tend land purchased a sad athla d a this will win count as residence on the homestead The policy of the Canadian C l government is to I tp lavita all those who are desirable The regulations at st ata Che seaports perta respecting re c rejections of undesirable bI bie I Iare grants are almost almo t exact counterparts of et thos m he hein in the ue United Sues States The TIle lave have Lve statutory power to reject and to deport say saya a adorable i we le h Immigrant ant who wise may mey have aw lilt hers is t n M MIt morn more than iMa twelve mouths months The TIle American farmer is welcome te in Vie cause canoe be ite has the tile money to invest lave t in his business acid the experience to succeed Be He to Is the worlds champion chanioa tiller of the soil I In his ht wake prosperity pro penty always Hal fol Hallows follows lows 10 on He will not forget f that he be is k ao as A and he be will plant the seed eed of Americanism as surely as a he be will plant his bI grain grata |