Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1892-12-03
CANADIAN PACIFIC AGGREs-
SION

and only just beyond it in British
America, has been built almost en-
tirely by subsidies, granted by the
Dominion and British governments
and amounting to over $780, 0O,.
600. Connecting with it at its
western terminus is its line Of
steamers from Vancouver to China
and Japan, maintained by an an
nual subsidy Of 100000. 1t is
now announced on good authority
that the Canadian Pacific is to re-
ceive as gift from the Dominion
government the extensive Intercol-
onial Railroad, valued at $50,000,-
900, which will give this corpora
ton complete control of the traffic
and also the politics of the eastern
provinces, as it has long controlled
both in western British America.
The Intercolonial is 1850 miles in
length and touches no less than six
ocean ports-Pointe du Chene ard
st. John in New Brunswick, Pictol.
Halifax, Sydney and North sgd
ney in Nova Scotia In considers
ton of this gift, the Canadian Pa
cifc is to establish a line of first
class steamers between Halifax ard
Great Britain, to which the Domin-
ion government will be pledged &c
pay an annual subsidy of $780,.
600. Thus this gigantic corpora
ton aims to divert our trans-Atlsn-
tic commerce, as it has succeeded
in doing with our Pacific trade to
an alarming extent, into Canadian
ports, to be distributed over its own
system to the injury not alone Of
our trade, but in harmful compe.
tition with our own transportation
lines.
Instead of opposing it we actual.
ly participate in this comprehensive
scheme for absorbing our trade
We not only allow it to set at naught
the restrictions hampering our own
railroads under the Interstate Com
merce laws and to compete with
them on unequal terms for long dis
lance freight, but we also stupidity
allow it the privilege of transport.
ing goods in bond from one point
in the United States to another
Were it not for the business it thus
unju silly takes from our own lines
the Canadian Pacific would cease
to be a paying system, notwithstan.
ding the immence subsidies it has
received-which, when the Interco.
lonial is transferred to it, will foot
up fully $160,000,00O.
A recent Treasury report shows
that during the last fiscal year this
foreign corporation carried %, 239
$50 pounds of freight consisting
of commodies imported into the
United States through British Co.
lumbia from China and Japan
1t carried 24,068,946 pounds of oul
exports to China and Japan back
owe the same route. Of commodi.
ties from eastern to western points
in the United States it carried 49,.
912,073 pounds, and from ports or
the Pacific coast to eastern points il
transported 13,293,315 pounds
That it contemplates further inroads
on our trade is made manifest in
its latest coupe, by which it has
just obtained possession of the Lake
Street Elevated Railroad, giving il
a free right of way into the heart
of Chicago.
Aside from its active and destruc,
tive warefare on our commercial in.
terests, the Canadian Pacific has
richly earned hostility, instead O
the special favors which it actually
receives, from this government. Il
is the very backbone of anti Yanket
Tory sentiment in Canada and the
chief obstacle in the way of annex
alton. 1t is the powerful instru
ment designed by Great Britain tc
perpetuate English domination or
the American continent and to per.
petually antagonize the United