The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-25
SECTION THREE.

II EGINA, n. w. T., oct. 2O.-What is the matter
h with Canada? Why have our neighbors got
their backs up at us2 For several weeks have
been travelling through the Dominion asking ques-
tons right and left in the endeavor to establish the
Canadian view point. The United States and Canada
are about the same size and about the same age
Why should one have 7OOOO,OOO people and the other
only 100000? why isn't Vancouver big Seat
tie and Victoria large as San Francisco and Win
npeg great Minneapolis? Nations. like men,
are known by their works and how can the Canadian
explain away greatness of the United States and
account for the lack of development in his coun
try2 Isn't Canadas ambition to compete with the
powerful nation that has up by her side about
ike small grocery trying 10 QUITO a department
store? Would it not be wisdom for Canada, whose
resources similar to ours to act with us instead
or against us and thus ENJOY the dement, OF our pres
tge a world power? These the questions
have been asking neighbors and in reply again
quole H. T. Ioshell the dominion historian ana
politician, whose statements are made in accordance
with an intimate knowledge of Canadian sentiment:
lt Is the lhNtfiaDie RUE IN the Unlteu states 10
look upon Canadians being slow and unenterpris-
ms You say we are not sufficiently progresslve that
we began ire as country before the United States
that our country is large. that natural re-
sources are great that the nd ease OF our population
mas ueeu lislshllc5nJ compared with IhaI OF the
United States which has progressed tremendously in
wealth. population, commerce and industry. The in
ference 20 your Hlnd rs plainly mat win similarity
of products. institutions people etc. had we been
part of you we would have SHARED that prosperity
IN a proper uohale degree. ADMIT that on the race
OF IL there is strong pausibiity in such statements;
but it involves miscCncepuon Of facts and condi-
tons. Your premises are wrong and your conclu-
sions wrong.
opportunities we did not have an equal area Of pro-
ductive land and had great physical obstacles to
overcome. To start with, had race problem
which the United states had. At the time
the United states became Independent the population
of Canada. about 10000 (tha English speaking popu-
lation was less than 10000 was almost wholly
French. who were either fur-huuters peasant
farmers of the French type, whose instincts and
Iirations not of the aggressive and commercial
character OF their American neighbors. The white,
English population of the United states 100000,
almost wholly Anglo-saxon and 200 times greater
than
They had the advantages of country embrac-
iUS ali varieties of climate and conditions making
20 self-sufHcienCy. They had large and compact
areas 10 settle. As the larger body always attracts
kind the United States with larger population
It's more inviting natural conditions and greater
fractions drew population rapidly. The law of the
lEoNeEents or population is like any other natural
law-t is irresistible The first impulse given over
100 years ago Co western movement to the country
south of and that movement had sNpend itself
thereby and deeply drained was po1verIess As the
movement spread further west, the eastern states
felt 1t the same as Canada die. The people Of the
United states for years flowed on with the tide to
wealth and prosperity: Canada had TO struggle
against IT, There the three critical periods in
me history or canada since the date Of independence
in 1871, when old Upper and Lower Canada (Ontario
and Quebec) Uni,cd under one constitution:
about 1870 when responsible government was oh
tanned. and i'm 1867. when confederation took place
It is interesting the population of Canada and
the United states respectively the dates nearest
those three periods. They tell their tale.
Canada. L. s.
il9l 100000 3ISOOOO
1910 OS0O00 1000 600
1867 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 5750OO 5000
From 1865 TO about 1895 or period OF about thirty
years, nearly 100000 of people their way from
canada TO the United States. drawn there by
Of population, by the gamor and rush of the large
cities and by the numbeess superior opportunities az
forded by the rapid growth development Of an i'm
ense stretch of territory following the wake of the
transcontnental railways. No treking was ever
known in the worlds history. What would have been