The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-07
CANADA AND Yukox RAILROAD.

Inc Torunto Globe. organ of the Can
the defeat Of the Yukon railway bin by the
senate. On the day Of the vote II printed
a hrcadsiie. entitled. a sin Against Can
sensed the following for the consideration
of parliament and the pubic:
THE rejection OF the Canadian Yukon
railway bin by the senate means loss
OF millions 10 the clties the traders and
the manufacturers of Canada.
1t means less work for Canadian fac
tories and less labor and lower wages for
Canadian workmen.
Il; means decreased earnings for Cana
dian railways. less demand for railway
employees. a. decreased business al Cana
dian ports and Canadian Quitting centers.
II means a grave danger that the Yu-
kon trade. or millions upon millions in
value and volume. viii BE- permanently
settled in American channels and pernan-
emily established in American business
eensers
1T means spasm OF prosperity on the
Canadian Pacific coast and long reign
OF prosperity On the American Pacific
coast.
II means that older Canada must pay
tens OF thousands Of dollars OF cash out OF
the public treasury to create some sails
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Yukon country.
1T means that hundreds Of thousands OF
dollars more than would be NECESSARY TN
der the policy Of the government must he
spent in policing. in preserving order in
getting supplies in and in the general adj
minisfratlon of the affairs of the klondike.
II means that, for the present. through
difficulty of access and other causes which
the government by this bargain aimed 10
remove. Canada muat pay probably half
sniliton dollars "A year in ruling and hold
| ing the Yukon district.
1T means probably q great loss OF life
among the thousands who are rushing into
the Yukon over the present dangerous
routes and passes.
lit means that neither the churches nor
the medical and charitable organizations
can do their humane work effectively In
that country.
1T may mean that next fall the tens Of
thousands in that country will be cut OF
from any adequate means OF retreat, that
famine and death may rayage and deci-
mate. that one of the most tragic stories
in the history of human civilization may
be written in the snow and ice of that far
OF country. and that the result may DO
to deal death blow to Canada from which
We may not recover in a generation.
1T may mean that the British flag win
be imDeriied and Canadian authority set
at defiance by the struggling multitude of
alien miners in that remote and inacces-
sibe land.
1T may mean that as no permanent fin
ancial interest in that country is created.
such as was secured by the bargain with
Mackenzie & Mann the eagerfooted mass
es now rushing into the country may.
through one unfavorable season. rush out
as quickly, and the country be left in lone
and bleak desolation. and Canada have no
other result from these Yukon discoveries
than an increase of debt and a great adj
dition to the public expenditures.
1T means that the gold will be carried
out by alien miners. that the business will
be done by alien traders. and that Canada
Will foot the bills.
1T means government from Washing
ton rather than government from Ottawa.
Surely Sir Mackenzie Bowel should re-
ceive the Grand Cross of the Order of Sc
attic and Tacoma