. Review of reviews and world's work. TIIK RT. HON. sili WILFRID LAURIER. (The premier of Canada, leader of the Liberal party, whose administration is aboutto go before the country lor approval.) Ten years ago. Canada was buying only $56,ooi),omi worth of American goods. To-day, de-spite the Canadian tariff, $125,000,000 worth ofAmerican imports yearly enter the exports to Greal Britain represent al- THE TREND OF POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN CANADA. 575. MK. ROBERT L. BORDEN. (Leader of the Conservative opposition in Canada.) most the same doubling at a bound in ten years ;and the ent
. Review of reviews and world's work. TIIK RT. HON. sili WILFRID LAURIER. (The premier of Canada, leader of the Liberal party, whose administration is aboutto go before the country lor approval.) Ten years ago. Canada was buying only $56,ooi),omi worth of American goods. To-day, de-spite the Canadian tariff, $125,000,000 worth ofAmerican imports yearly enter the exports to Greal Britain represent al- THE TREND OF POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN CANADA. 575. MK. ROBERT L. BORDEN. (Leader of the Conservative opposition in Canada.) most the same doubling at a bound in ten years ;and the entrance of 20,000 immigrants in 1894has gone up to nearly 150,000 in 1904, of whom50,000 are Americans. The good feature ofthis immigration is that the settlers have are American capitalists seeking fields ofinvestment; and in one case, an American com-pany is prospecting for a railroad through the(lanadian wheat belt. Receipts on the CanadianPacific Railroad have almost reached the million-a-week mark, and a second transcontinentalroad is being built. For five years crops havebeen phenomenal ; and phenomenal crops, withdollar-a-bushel wheat, have such a suppressingeffect on the political agitator that I heard onedisgruntled western member demand, Howcould you expect people to care which way theyvote when times were so prosperous ? Unsuccessful effort has been made to createpolitical capital out of side issues, but it is aI matter of congratulati
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