The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-29
A FEW NEW STATES
Material in Canadian Provinces to
Swell the Union.
What Would Accrue 10 United states
II Canada Came IR-Immense
Territory and Vast


lie Debat, a Montreal paper, comes
out fatfooted for Canada's union with
the United States, provided the prov
inces of the dominion be admitted as
states. Some of them would be ad-
mitted thus on the contamination of the
union, even if that event took place
tomorrow, says the Chicago Tribune.
Ontario, with its 2,225, 900 of popula-
ton, its 1000 miles Of railway, its
Astounding fields of wheat and barley,
its generous orchards, its immense
self-replenishing forests, it's natural
wealth of copper, nickel, iron, petrole-
um, gas and salt, would make a state
which the entire union would hasten to
welcome. Ontario borders upon -four Of
the great lakes, upon Georgian bay.
Lake st. Clair, the Detroit river. the St.
Lawrence river. Its natural facilities
for navigation in the heart of the North
American continent are %plethoric, and
the few connecting links in the arteries
of water which a wearied ma
ture had neglected art has supplied.
These bodies of water are now the bar
riers Of trade between the United States
and Ontario, but were the union effected
they would soon become, instead, high
roads.
East of Ontario, the Ottawa river and
the st. Lawrence meet the great city of
Montreal, in the province of Quebec.
Montreal combines the advantages of a
seaport with an inland port. for the st.
Lawrence flows from it to the open
ocean in a stream of such width and
depth as to accommodate the argosies
of the world, while canals enable the
barks of the five lakes to meet deep sea
ships in the continuous harbor which
surrounds the island of Montreal. Que
bee has a population of nearly 2 200, 600,
noted as much for their industry and
thrift as for their detestation of race
suicide. It's people are farmers, lum-
bermen, salt and fresh water fishermen,
sailors and manufacturers. They exhibit
the anne diyersification of industry and
enterprise as characterizes the eastern
states of this country. Quebec, like On
tario, will enter the union a fullledged
state.
The three maritime provinces have
together nearly 1000, 900 people-lum-
bermen and fishermen, hardy people of
the sort celebrated by Kipling in Cap
tains Courageous" The incorporation
of such men and women as they are in
our nation would do much to offset the
hundreds of thousands of the dregs of
Europe which we yearly absorb through
Castle Garden. The maritime provinces
would not be asked to wait for state-
hood, though it were well, indeed.
either for the three to combine in one
state, or else for New Brunswick and
Prince Edward to unite. The latter is
small to be a separate state.
Columbia, in the northwest, is doub-
ling its population each decade.
Though its greatest length from north
west to southwest is 1,250 miles. yet
its wonderful seacoast has a length of
$4,000 miles. Undeyeloped as it is it's
productions are already a considerable
proportion of the wealth of the whole
Cominion-its mines producing ore
sixth of Canadian metals, its fisheries
one-third of the Canadian catch of fish.
Columbia would make a glorious cap
stone to the column of Pacific states.
Its name was accorded 1t with prophetic
vision.
Manitoba has over $50, 900 of inhab-
itants. Its numbers are swelling in al
most equal ratio with C~olumbia's, and
two seats in the United States senate
are waiting for it.
The northwestern territories of Atha-
basca, Assiniboia, Saskatchewan and
Alberta are rapidly filling with popu-
lation-much of It, indeed, being Amer
lean, Whether they would be required
to serve an apprenticeship as territories
is a question which would be settled on
the same principles as we're applied to
almost every state in the union except
the original thirteen. Whenever their
population warranted they would be
admitted as states.
Locally, the new states would have
the same rights of self-government as
belong to the constituent parts of the
present United States. Nationally they
would have two senator's apiece at
Washington and representatives ac-
cordlng to population. Their national
legislators would have exactly that part
in the formation OF national legislation
to which the federal system of govern
ment entities them. In the cabinet CT
the president would sit members from
the new states, and whenever the wheel
of political fortune made the proper
revolution an |inhabitant of the present
dominion of Canada would be the presi-
dent of the United States.
Worse Than Philadelphia,
Who's the slowest man you ever
knew"
"A chap in New York. He fell out of
a third story fiat window and did not
reach the ground for an hour"
How was that?"
He caught in a tree at the second
story and ven in to visit some friends"