The Republican journal., 1892-04-21

would soon make Canada to be land flow
ing with milk and honey, and this good for
nothing desert would rejoice and blossom
as the rose. So if your eye ever happens to
fall upon an extract from a Canadian paper,
first inquire which side of politics it repre-
sents. Each party is spotess in its own
eyes. But then, even Boston editors don't
all see alike as regards politics.
You are aware, of course, that the number
of newspapers. or rather the increase of that
number. is often referred to as a mark of
prosperity. In 1864 Canada had 2S6 papers.
She now has 1,O33. AT that time Manitoba
had but one, now 81. British Columbia 3,
now 50. Nova Scotia %, now 81. Ontario
172, now 573. The other provinces have
gained likewise
| have heard no complaints among the
farmers They find ready sale for their
products. Potatoes sell readily here for fifty
cents, being shipped in large quantities to
the West India Islands. The soil produces
| them SO easily that they can be raised at a
good profit for % cents. Hay has sold all
winter for from - to l. dollars: and last
week a farmer a few miles from here sold
the balance he had on hand, about 200 tons,
at SIT 90 delivered on the wharf. Much at
tention is given to poultry and eggs. Till
recently the latter We're sent chiefly to Bos-
ton, but within a year OF so the fast steamers
arranged with suitable coolers began to take
them to England where a higher price is
realized than ever before
The surplus populations beginning to move
towards the provinces of the Northwest on
the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway
Manitoba has an area of &C, 900 square miles.
! The capital, Winnepeg, has now a population
of 900 and i'll a few years will more than
double it. Her elegant churches. her parlia-
ment buildings, her hotels, her acres of 3 or
story brick and stone buildings, her % miles
of railroad sidings-these are some of the igns
of her progress. Then, the four other prairie
provinces, each having about one-thrd more
area than Manitoba-viz. Alberta Athebas-
ca, AsSiniboin and Observation-Disclosures max
ing rapid strides in the line of progress.
They contain an area of 400 million acres,
wheat. An educated man who visited them
last summer, in order to ascertain their re-
sources, told me- that these five provinces
We're capable of supporting a population of
90 millions, and i'll addition to this feed the
world-on the basis of present purchases-1S
months with one years crop of wheat. Some
persons ignorant of physical geography
might suppose the climate to be severe
but the fact that the isothermal line in its
western course, makes an angle with the
lines of latitude, materially changes the
Temperatures This law explains why the
climate of Labrador is not so mild as that of
England. Thousands of Young farmers from
the British Isles, of the best class, are yearly
settling in those western provinces along the
railroad lines. The government of Canada has
agents in England and elsewhere selecting
emigrants of the best quality giving to every
young man of Is Years a farm of 100 acres. if
he has energy to live upon ii and cultivate
it.
L find that one question now receiving the
careful attention of English and Canadian
Statesmen is the uniticaton of the Empire.
English statesmen say to her colonies: "We
now purchase yearly for home consumption
largely from the nitt4u States.