Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-25

| impossible Of financial success. Van Horne
| was sneered at by railroad nabobs of the
| United States as a visionary and Shaugh-
messy, In smaller way, I venture, was
criticised for leaving such a sure thing as
| the Milwaukee road for the incipient c. P.
| r. Today both men live to laugh at their
| railroad critics Of the past. They have seen
their railroad grow into what is the larg-
est single line Of transportation In the
| World. The Canadian Pacific has twelve
| tho Usand miles of iron track. Its rails
reach from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and
| it has also steamships crossing both oceans
| so that one can step on board one of the
conpany's vessels at Liverpool and travel
across to North America. There he can
take the railroad across the continent to
Vancouver and on another Canadian Pa
sific vessel go on to Yokohama and Hong
kong without once stepping outside the
com pany's property. The distance is half
way around the world.
Both men have seen the road proved q
financial success. Its stock is away above
par and its revenue has increased beyond
their dreams. Both men have long since
become Canadian citizens and both have
done SO much for their adopted country
that they have been knighted by the crown
and have sirs to their names. Sir William
Van Horne became president of the road in
1885, but two or three years ago he retired
and Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, who had all
the time been steadily climbing, was elected
his successor. Sir William had said
some years ago when c. p. r. stock was
worth less tnan Oh cents on the dollar that
he would resign when it reached par and
when the road had mileage of ten thous-
and and he did resign when that time
came
Sir Thomas Shaughnessy.
I found Sir Thomas a younger man than
expected. He is about fifty, but he looks
forty-hve. His face is fair, rosy, and free
from wrinkles; his hair is light and it
looks as though it may have been red in
evidently having no doubt as to what he
wants to say, and no backwardness In say
Ing 1t. When I asked as to whether Canada
wanted reciprocity treaty with the United
States, for instance, he replied:
What Canada wants of your country Is
just what you have been giving us for the
past twenty or thirty years. We want a
that you cannot climb over 1t. We want
to profit by the same policy which has so
aided In building up the United States.
We believe in protection and home indus
try. and we shall keep our tariff high
enough to encourage it."
I'm that case, Sir Thomas, the American
| manufacturers will get the trade by COM
| Ing across the border and building branches
here. VIII they not?
THAT is just what they are doing now
was the reply. MANY millions of dollars
of American capital have already gone into
such branches. Nearly all of your chief in
| Gustrial institutions are establishing them.
Take the American Locomotive Works, for
| instance. They are building steam engines
| fot this railroad. They put up a number
| for us last year, and we shall buy more in
| the months to come. We are glad to well
come such institutions. We want their
goods, but we want them made on Can
| adam soil, and with Canadian labor
You do not speak as though a union of
| the two countries was possible commercial
| ~. Sir Thomas" said I. How about a
political union?
THAT is an even greater improbability
| than a commercial union," said the presi-
dent of the Canadian Pacific IT do not
lsknow single Canadian who advocates the
annexation OF Canada with the United
| States, nor of one who wants political
union of any kind. We believe we are
better Off by ourselves. We don't see that
we would gain anything by uniting with
| you. and we believe 1t Is better for the
United States and for US to have COMPETE
ton"
.aThen Canada would rather remain a
part of the British empire. II has now
| five or six million people and is only the
tail of the imperial dog. When Canada
has ffty millions will II not break of or
will the Canadian tail be then strong
enough to wag the dog r
"At present our relations with the Brit
ish empire are all we could wish, and we