*they have undertaken, and promised to per- portion of the vear in which it is impossible
form, this gigantic work, and bave it fin- to carry'on that speedy and safe and unin;'
ished by 1886. Now, sir, are these promies terrupted communication, which we xieed for-
to be ?ffied? Once let tus ide be over. the purposes forwhieh this trans-continental
throwa, andthey shall asemble agam about railway is to be built. Sir. there is a senti-
|thir fireides and say, ah! there has been a mental reason wbic?h comes in, but it is a
failure over there in Canada; theyundertook forcible one. What would you think of .
more than they could carry out; they prom- unity of amily life, what would be yodr in-
ised well, but they failed, in performance; terest in your heme, if every time you got
-and there goes down the prestige of Canada; up from your breakfistable' to go to your
there goes down at least a part of that library, yot had to pass through apartments
1~at$r?on whioh this, country has had, as a whieh qwre owned and controlled by some
field for immigat?on, and there, I: believe, other peon ? old you feel that you had
the name and the fame and the interest of a home of your own ? Would you feel the
Canada til suffer in a very. vital and im- same love tor its roof? Aside from the in-
portant way. Therefore I conclude in my convenience which would be inevitable,
*own mind-hon. genclemen ma take it for there would be a taking away of the feeling
what it is worth-that it is important th th that it was your own home, and that yoel
this scheme should be carried out; that it is were under your own roof. Hon. gentlemen
-the general sentiment that it should be car- oppsit may think that this is a v ery pleas-
tied out, and that it is all important that it ant thig, an tthey may smile abvut it, but
thould proceed because of the interest and it has force ith m e aud w ith te peope of
|she fame and the credit of Canada in conn force aud with th peop of
taies abroad. But intmatel , connected this eo?ntrp; it has force, and it will have
with this is the great subject of mmiration. ore, POLn ON Tshaping
eo one doubts that this very building and
?cOnstruction and completion of this trans. A person knows very little about railroading,
-continental raihray has been one of the best if he does not know that when a company
things which this country has put torward has a line df railway 1,000 miles long a*way
as an attraction for immigration, in all parts over there, snd a line of railway 500 or 600f
-of the world from which we draw cur immi- miles long on this side, and ` between them
.gration. It is no doubt a fact that the there is only a means of joining them by 0
Kopening ,up of such an immense country running their freights and pasaengers on 'a
, by proadwhich belongs to a'different country,
AN, UNBROKEN LINE OF BAILWAY, with hostile tariffs, and with another sys-
-o that these people might have communican tem,n: and all the possible inconveniences
tion with the Old C0untry, and have inter- which may arise--I say a person knows
course in different ways with the outside. ltttle of railroading if he does not know,
|worM, bas.been of the very gratest import- .that the expense and inconvenience incident
auee and attility in attraeting immigrants to that sort of thing is one of the strongest
into this country, and not only in attracting arguments that can be used to those people
those who have already come over here, but to obtain an independent, self-controlled, and
ia starting that Bpirit of desire, that spirit through line of communication open for
of looking foward, that spit which sys: themselves. I say, therefore, that we have
there i Os the oountry to which, if we change not an open means of condunication, suchl
we sbIl cbange to; a spirit which is as seed as is at all adequate, frorm these older Prov-
:sown ins fertile soil, whic wilA bring forth, inces to the heart of the North-West terri-
as year passes eaon year, its increaing harvest tory. say we need that line, that the de-
,of immigr?tion to this country. I?believe velopment of the North-West ?epends on it,
1 h at if, today the Parlisment of Canada that the number of immigrants we get there,
should decide that this great work sihould the amount of produce which is raised there,
stop ad aot be carried to it proised com- the amount of minerals which is taken ott
ple 18, that?i shall loiter elog and heitste from their min?s, and all the vast develop-
i 1891 the mmigton interest of this ent of that country depend, more perhape
|couatry would be sadly and importantly . H
1couatrytwould be dly and impor tly u than we think, upon the speedy, continuous
affected by that course of conduct. So, I and uninterrupted communication which
am in favor of hby ving this work opushedSa O shall take place between this part -and that
tlrough by the end of 1885, for he sake t f
our immigration interests. Ther ar - part of our country-this an older irnd:
jsoDs at home, too. One of the firstis the stronger olte, but that a newer one, and full
|D/orth-West de~elopment kA entleman of greater possibilities, and capable of the
spe,Rtking on the other side of the House greatest amount of expansion. OurBritishi
Bsald: cannot we get into the N ,rth-West Columbia development needs it. Sir, since
now? True, but we have to croa foreign our confederation with British Coliltnbia,
.country. that ptovince
[Some on. members.-No, no. HAS STAYED AWAY OUT BY ITSELF
Ma. FoBTM I-Hon. gentlema n have not for ali these years, with three-fourth;, five-
jlved to the length ofyearsto which they hiae sixths, yes, nineteen-twentieths of her people
'jlived, and felt the nows which have falen on strangers to us commercially and ociaRy,
rtheir heads, and geen the ice which has and is she to remain there u/btil, 1891, with u
-eakn-hold of river. ana harbor in ail thise all the disadvantages which reslt fr6m that
years, without kiDoing that there is a large isolation ? But if we carrv out this idea,