dom of trade, which between the commonwealths has built them up, and which
has been denied to Canada. By a policy of isolation, restriction and exclusion,
she has been shut out from the great growth on this continent which has challenged
the wonder of the world. IF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE HAD TAKEN IN
THE WHOLE CONTINENT, THE 8AME RELATIVE PROGRESS WOULI) HAVE TAKE.N PLACE
NORTH OF THE 45TH PARALLEL -THE LAKES AND THE ST. LAWRNCE--THRAT HAS
TAKEN PLACE TO THE SOUTH OF THEM, AND THE WORLD WOULD HAVB BIEN ENRICIHED
TO DOUBLE THB EXTENT OF TH} CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE UNITED STATF.S.
IF, THEREFORE, THE POLICY WHICH HAS HITHERTO PREVAILD IN CUANADA HAS
BEEN OE D OF RETARDATO, OSLOW DEVELOPMET, OF DECLINING VALS, OF AN
EXODUS OF POPULATION, OF N ASINGINDEBTEDNESS, AND DE POWR OF
PAYMENT, IS ITTREASONABLE TO BGIN TO TALK OF A CANGEOF CONDITIONS-NOT
A CHANGE IN POLITICAL CONDITIONS, FOR THAT ENT8 UINF??,ARY, BUT A
CHANGE IN FISCAL POLICY, WHICH WOULD REMOVE THE BARRIER TWEEN THE
TWO PEOPLE.
IF THE VA8T MINERAL WEALTH OF CANADA LIES SILENT AND DORMANTAND
DEAD BECAUSE O F THE W AI OF ? MARK, WHAT WOULD STIIJLATE IT8 DEm~V-
OPMENT 80 GREATLY AS T OPBENINUP OF TRHGREATEST MK FOR XMIl W
UNDER THE SUN? IF THE AGRICULTURAL FORCES OF CANADA ARE D,
UNPROFITABLE AND INSIGNIFICANT, WHAT BETTER ONDITIO COULD PREVAIL
THAN TO OPEN UP ACCESST TO FED THE OBEATEST MONY-MING, MONEY-SPEND-
ING AGGREGATION OF HUlANT Y IN THE WORLD t IF ILLIITABLE rO?ESTS OF
TIMBER ARE ROTMNG AND BURNING EVERY YAR TO N E T A TAN
THE CON8UMPTION.-IF TM GRBAT COAST OF FISHE IVE THOUSAND
MILES IN LENGTH, ARE WAoG FOIR WANT OF USE, I IN EVEY DIE OO THER
18 SLOWNESS IN GROWTH OF WFALTH AND DEVELOPMENT, AND ALL TEHI COULD BE
REICEDIED BY AN OBLITERATION OF THE OUTOMl8 LINE BETWEEN THE TWO PEOPLE
THAT HOLD THE CONINEN T IN CONTINE IN MMON, WHAT IN THE NAM OF OMMON SEE
HOULD STAND IN THE WAY OF SUCH A CONSUt ATION :
( Great Britain would ive been inflnitely- bitter off, se while he. is
recetving 25 millilons of dollXrs ln interest- eery year from heP osessions in
North America, she is recelving 200 mnillions of dollars in intert from the ted
colonies that declared thelr independente of he iseal interfrence. Th? B
goods used In Canada are no grter, per capita, than the E gfs h ood ed
the tUnited States. The population from the British sles in th? Union io nl t inm
that in the Dominion, and, sO far as material advantage is c M, the lnid
States is, to-day, one hundred times iore mportnt to the eommerce of Great
Britain than is Canada."
Could Mr. Whnan have expressed in. onuger or more expliclt terms the faet
that Britih connecton had& stnted and blight the dwelopment of Canai for
the past one hundred and twenty years, and yet he would continue Itis blightoig
embrace whi-le beseeching the peolie of the Unlted States to ome to the rlef of
Canada. It would seem to inost minds afte readtng Mr. Wiman'a statement, that
if after a trial of one hundred and tntyye, red;by every standrd oL