Show THE ADVANCING DOMINION Cana Canada la in in n n t the he ver very ery flood tide tide tide-of of a 8 boom b om Mr Fielding Felding tile the minister of finance for the dominion o on Wednesday last h in iii presenting tIme the Ow budget to tp the thc house ouse of commons at Ottawa made a brief speech in which he lie explained that the total estimated estimated esti esti- m mated ted revenue evenue for the fiscal year ear which ended March 31 was wa while the tilt total estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated expenditures were leaving an estimated surplus of The net debt of f fI I Canada per capita is now now as against I twenty years ears ago and there arc are no outstanding i temporary loans Mr Mi Il Fielding said it is now the i fixed policy of the government t to make no loans I without att attaching ehing a sinking fund Last year ear the thc g government paid out on the thc Transcontinental Transcontinental I railway of which only was borr bor bor- r rowed wed The minister put sp special cia emphasis on the desirable desirable de de- de- de immigration coming into int Canada anada and said tha that C Canada nada cared more for the quality than the number of oI be her immigrants T r rM I M Most I st of that immigration went vent from the United States m waking making king a serious loss to our pur country a mighty gain aill for Canada da for as a rulo rule the themen men who g gi gt to to G Canada ii da to buy bur homes horns ar are arC with their money money a Ii loss permanent loss to this timis countr country S Some me after fter their money i is spent return but not not- er very man many Iowa Mi Minnesota n sota and the Dakotas show the th loss but hut no western western-or or southern states southern states received we went t north We Ve suspect suspect- that Canada had made good to her all the losses she has suffered through her people peo peo- plc pIc coming this wa way for the past twenty years O Our lr country country- ought to make a diversion if possible if-possible Moro More i should l. l The Thc i immense umen areas r a p ot swamp sWa lands should he be rained drained and made habitable habitable habit habit- able ubIe The Tile swamp lands as a rule belong to the states We cannot understand why the slates are alc areSO areso so set indifferent in regard to those lands If they borrowed d the money t to r redeem the tile lands tho they would get it all aU allback back back- backas as ar soon as aH the thc drainage could be completed the tho health of their them states would be improved improve greatly and ond the inhabitants and products gr greatly atly increase l. l But returning to Cana Canada a it is clair that a pC permanent per per- 1 manent wave of prosperity has set seJin ju in stron strongly d in her and and the thc he United States can congratulate e her with hut but huta a single regret which is that she is drawing to her so 50 much An American brain and brawn |