The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-03-29
CANADIAN ENEMY.
SUBSIDIES AMI aIFTs BEAPED ON
fHE CANADIAN Pacific.

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OTTAWA, March p6.-Tho scheme for establish
ina q fast steamship line betwse cen Canada an,
England with vessels Of the Tsutonic type
capable OF maintaining n speed Of twenty knots
will make the Canadian Pacific Railway q NOR,
valuable military highway than ever for Eng
land. Sir Charles Topper was brought from
London to take tho place OF the present TorJ
Premier. Sir Mackenzie Bowel. by the Canadian
Pacific, and the Canadian Pacific will supply him
with campaign funds for the approaching cleo
lions. In return, Sir Charles. II sustained at the
polls. Ia to purchase from the Canadian Pacific
several million acres of Wild land I'm the
Northwest which IL ROt with it's other
Government subsidies, and to make II
q present OF tho Intercoloninl RAILWAY,
/. Government roai whhh has cost the
Taxpayers S55. 900, 900 TO date. The Canadian
Pacific needs money, and can bond the Inter
colonial for ten OF fifteen thousand dollars n
mile. Halifax is one OF the termini Of the Inter
colonial, and in winter the fast steamships will
run from Halifax. In summe they will run
from Quebec. where the present Canadian Pa
cIho system connects with the lntcrcolonial.
Thus the fast line will be n link, and an i'm
portpnt one. on the route between England and
Asia. to which Canadian Pacific steamers run
from Vancouver. These steamers are Subsidized
by the British Government on the understand.
ing that they may be employed in case OF war as
auxiliary cruisers. The fast vessels on the
Atlantic are to be subsidized by England to the
amount Of $3.50. 900 or 1915. 900 n year on tho
same understanding. Canada is to give them
an annual subsidy of $3.50, 900.
Halifax Is protected by the British North At.
lantic squadron, by the guns OF the citadel, and
by elaborate Notifications on the small ISL
andn commanding the entrance OF the harbor.
The citadel at Quebec ia In a rather dilapidated
condition Just now. but could easily be made
impregnable. The Pacific end Of the railway is
protected by the Notifications at Esquimault
and tho North Pacific squadron. Troops en-
barking at Liverpool on the twenty-knot steam
ers could be landed at Halifax, $3.50 miles. in
fve and a half days, at Quebec. 1901 miles. In
about the same time, at Montreal In six days,
at Winnipeg in eight and a half, at Vancouver
in ten or eleven. At Vancouver. In addition to
the Canadian Pacific steamers running to Yoko-
hama and Hong Kong, the latter point being
reached from Vancouver In twenty DAYS. there Is
q line of steamships. subsidized by the Canadian
Government, to Honolulu, Suya, in the Fiji
islands, and Sydney, Australia. The trip from
Vancouver to Sydney occupies twenty four days.
Hence, with fast steamships on the Atlantic.
England will be able to reach any part Of the
Pacific Ocean in remarkably quick time. and to
distribute bodies of troops along the northern
frontier Of the United States. all tho way from
Maine TO Oregon. in less time than it took to
send the Guards to Halifax during the Trent
affair, thirty-two years ago.
Some suspect Mr.. Chamberlain Of la wing had
= hand In the deal whereby Upper is to be sub
stituted for Bowel and the Intercolonial turned
over to the Canadian Pacific. The Government,
Of which Topper is now n member, and will
soon be head. proposes. over and above this. to
spend $4,000. 900 on Notifications in Canada
next year. but the Liberals will refuse to let the
vote pass. They are afraid Ministers would
steal most of the money for the elections, and
think that instead Of armlng against the United
States for a war which, II 1t should ever come,
could end only In one way, Canada would be
better employed in seeking closer trade rela-
tions. 1t is understood that when the fast line
Is established, and the finances of the Canadian
Pacific improved by the sale of lands to the
Government and the bonding OF the Intercolo-
NAL. Sir William Van Horne will retire from the
road. The stock has been unloa ded on English
men. and those operations will put them in
easy street for a while. Sir William aud his as
~sociates, Lord Mountstephen, Sir Donald Smith,
Mr.. Angus, &c, are now among the richest men
in Canada. and. naturally, among the most
fiercely loyal.
The weakness OF the military route is that the
United States could smash IL in fifty places in a
week. On the way from Halifax to Quebec the
htercolonial, once 1t makes the turn at Rim
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euski, runs close to the United States boundary;
Winnipeg Is only sixty miles from the boundary.
and from there across the plains to the Rocky
and beyond to Vancouver the Cana
dian Pacific could be cut in pieces by A few reso.
luta man All tho ybita an1 ,looL so,a;.a.
~ ".n AZ 'no "nte SUI oack so'a'ers
England has would be insufficient to guard tho
8 ZOO miles from Halifax to Vancouver.
Thu Ir,i,ad stat.s oonI, ,,r,u.Iu ,.a
a.e ~ o'a'es oouiu Vlr'ualiy destroy the
route without going to war at all. The Cana
dian Pacific could not keep going II II we're con-
fined 10 Canadian tran,c The IntsrcoIonial
" C""a"'a 'iahho. ine ineercoiohial
which with Its branches Is IL 40 miles long,
traverses a region containing Iess than a million
n.on,. Tha Mi, liza o.. C.,.... -"
s.orp ,nn Gan. "' p,n .ne .Ahauiah racine
Ocean, q distance of $500 miles. passes
through n wilderness in which all ,ord ,hara
sntousu" "nuernesS "h'ch. All toio' there
are not half q million whites. The rush OF pop
from Canada to the United States ia 90
go, ,h., a, ~. To-, go.
tna IN l".t CENSUS aecaue the per-
OF increase throughout the Dominion
was less than the percentage of increase iu Eng
land and Wales for the same period. The
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