Canada : an illustrated weekly journal for all interested in the Dominion. . Conservative Commons underwhich, by building some battleships, we should have expressedour desire to share in the larger affairs of the Empire. A vast quantity of water has gone under the bridges since danger at all times of prophecy is evident, and yet I amglad that I said some of the things by which at that momentI sought to steady opinion in Great Britain regarding that time we could not make provision by houses, roads,bridges1, railways, etc., fast enough for the tide of immigrantscoming to us a
Canada : an illustrated weekly journal for all interested in the Dominion. . Conservative Commons underwhich, by building some battleships, we should have expressedour desire to share in the larger affairs of the Empire. A vast quantity of water has gone under the bridges since danger at all times of prophecy is evident, and yet I amglad that I said some of the things by which at that momentI sought to steady opinion in Great Britain regarding that time we could not make provision by houses, roads,bridges1, railways, etc., fast enough for the tide of immigrantscoming to us at the rate of five new people each year for every100 people alreadv there, and we needed new loans constantlybecause of this. The war stopped immigration for the time,and, whether wisely or not, we finished our trans-continentalrailways and are now overbuilt in that respect, although stillshort of houses, good roads, and many other things necessaryto settlement and progress. A few million more people will stopthe deficits in part of our railway accounts, and will make it. THE PACIFIC TERMINAL OK THE GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC Rupert, on Kaien Island, B G. clear that further mileage will be necessary in areas properlyselected. Neither this nor any other future growth, however,will justify certain existing railway mileage, the cost of whichis a clear national loss and the operation a further loss, and itis vitally necessary that we should keep clear in our minds thedifference between these two kinds of overbuilding. Railway Building. When the Canadian Pacific Railway had passed its period ofdoubt—a more distressing time than anything that we have inCanada to-day, or that is likely to arise from the present situa-tion—the Dominion and Provincial Governments determinedto aid the creation of a new system from a point east of LakeSuperior to the Pacific Ocean. This intention met the applauseof all Canada, except those interested in the Canadian PacificRailway. It was clea
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