2d. If we grant Canada unrestricted Reciprocity, when will political union
"take place in your judgment ? Mr. Wiman made answer as follows: " A large
number of American citizens will go to Canada to investigatc her boundless
natural resources. Some will buy mineral lands and develop them. Some will
buy water powers and build manufactories upon them. Some will purchase tim-
ber lands and erect great saw mills and manufactture lumber; others will invest
in her flsheries ; others still will build railways and other public works and Operate
them; thousands will go in and o ?c-uy her arable lands: -whe ters W; ?vlte
themselves to trade, commerce, and finance. That in time the majority of the
population of Canada would be composed of citizens of the United States, and
then political union would naturalyt place." As I *was preset as a witness
for the defence, his answer pleased me. When giving my own testimony, I was
very careful to call the attention of the Senators to the fact that Mr. Wimarn had
upon a great many occasions, when addressing public meetings in Cada, frank-
ly told his fellow countrymen in all sincerity that unles they could secure a treaty
of unrestricted Reciprocity with the United States,political union was inevitable
It was the plain unvarnished truth, and I honor Mr. Wiman for having declared
it openly. Mr. Wiman dlid not offer any objection to my statement going upna
record as evidence.
Now let us examine Mr. Wiman's three statements beginning with numbe
two. The present population .Ca .ada is say 5,,000, assumig an inrease -of
ten per cent. each decade for twenty-years in 19183 t will be 6i050,0W inpedet
of any Americans who ma go there from here. (It will not exceed tnatLmuber
if we do not grant Canada '.pr?ty or political union is not consummat e Dur, -
ing the decade from 1871 to 1881, the popiulation of Canada inereased. ner!ynine-
teen per cent., while from 1881 to 1891, it was only eleven and three- rters p
cent., with an enormnnous expenditure of putblic, money upon. publi works, and an
abnormal irnrease in her raIlway mileage, incltuding the Caadi Paciflc and many
of its branches. During the latter part of the lat decade.immtgration was les.
than during the early part of it, while the. exodus wMas much greater. I p.wdit
that without reciprocity, or political union, Prince Edward's Island, Nova Scotia.
New Brunswiek and Quebec will show a loss in population in 1913, with only a
1 small increase in Ontaio. At hattime lf ourperetageof inrese isas gr
for each d?ecade as it was'from 1880 to 1890, our. poputiop n will hB 10e O,300,,
or in other words, upn the basil s of population our end of the. whife-tree wJll be
seventeen and a haf tims ae long as the Canadian end. Wheas il 1890 it was
about thirteen time longer, *d in 1870 o_ly eleven times longer.)
To have a bare majority at tt time of e born cltizen in nada, we
should be compelled toi part with more * *f,,000 of our best, most abititous,*
energetic, and enterprisin g sons and hters, an allthe nital they invested
in promoting the varlous ent?wprise inwhich they enaged to develop the atural