The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-09-28
ABOUT CANADA.
She Keeps The Wolf From Her Own
Door.
SHE DOES NOT NEED US.
BY G. GROSvENOR DAVE.

Written For The Commonwealth.
A Glance Observation-Disclosures
occasionally picture Miss Canada as
being very cold and torlorn, and as
knocking at the door of Uncle Sans
domain for admission. It makes quite
pretty picture and tends to increase
our selt-satisfaction at the idea that we
can extend comfort to the lady with
the frosty nose and the toboggan
blanket.
Certain OF our orators also indulge in
declarations that sound very we'll and
read very we'll about the arms of Uncle
Sam being wide open to welcome Can
ada. They even go so far as to say,
not only that Canada is welcome or
that Canada desires to come in, but
that Canada In the course OF time
must come in.
Miss Canada instead of being puny,
cold and miserable is a buxom, self
governing and self-maintaining lady
who owns nearly half million square
miles more, exclusive of Alaska, than
her southern would-be protector. We
will grant that some of it Is cold and
! unproductive on the extreme northern
border and the eastern border, but if
we throw aside the biographies OF
twenty-five years ago it Will be neces-
sary to concede that the map Of Can
ada has been remaklng just as exten-
sively as the map of Africa. The
northwestern territory OF Canada, for
instance, instead of being barren
stretch of land is productive in the ex-
treme and is capable of providing food
stu1s for fifty millions of people. The
land of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia,
New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island
is acre for acre as suitable for main
tanning population, as is the land In
any other portion OF the temperate
zones. Enormous possibilities are be-
tore British Columbia because OF its
agriculture, its fruit growing and its
timber. So far, therefore, as keeping
the wolf from the door is concerned
Miss Canada needs little of our sym
pathy and certainly does not ask for it
But it may truly be said that neither
man nor woman nor nation lives by
bread alone and modern civilization
creates so many necessities in the way
Ct manufactured goods that purely
agricultural country will grayltate to
wards manufacturing country in or
der to exchange products.
It is at this point that the cartoon
lists and the orators are speaking and
thinking OF Miss Canada as she was
fifteen or twenty years ago. She i!
learning very rapidly to manufacture
what she needs and thus to be largely
independent. In 1868 her imports were
$16,OOO,OOO more than her exports
even as late as 1888 the balance wa
still against her, but in 1898 she ex
ported $2S,OOO,OOO more of goods thar
she imported. Whatever feature OF he
life we look at we shall find similar evi
dence of increase in strength. Tht
tonnage of her shipping has doubled il
thirty years and increased 25 per cent
in four years. In thirty years her rail
road mileage has increased from !, ,27s
to 1918 miles, and the tonnage carriet
in 1898 was nearly 29, 0O0, 900 tons, one
third more than in 1895. Life insur
ance has grown in nineteen years from
s36, 100000 to 1863, 100000, and say
ings bank deposits have increased from
something over $4,0O0,O00 in 1868 t.
nearly $66, ,Ooo, 900 IN 1898. Iron an
steel industry is being rapidly develop
ed in Cape Breton, while at the othe
end of the dominion the choicest mir
eral areas of British Columbia are ais
being opened up. Everywhere tacte
ries are working to their capacity an
many of them are increasing their CT
pacity. The tendency is for employer
to look for men and not men to loo
> for employers. Her cities show qu''
:, as marked an improvement in the la
:, one hundred years as even the mo-
- progressive cities in the United States
II some of them being models OF all -th'
:e city should be in architecture ar
municipal management.
D Canada is thus rapidly reaching
condition of mind, that, even from tf
material standpoint of goods and cha
Sc tells, is not likely to confirm clever. b
,e misleading pictures or wordy but wort
- less perorations. Then, too, those wi
.. have clung to the idea that she mt
IS, come our way overlook this fact, tn
Id while she is held to the mother count
se by the lightest possible ties, IN whlc
- owing to the4esson we gave Engla1
~ ~ why were $4,000 BOTTLES OF RO
he ERTs' TAsTELEsS 25c. CHILL TON
rh sold the first year Of its birth2 Answ. H
It pacouaeit is the BEST AT ANY PRlC