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mills and factories are working SO
fast boasts the Washington Post,
that producers of raw materials are
hard pushed. Its farms are loaded
with crops Its railroads are rushed
night and day. Its cities and towns
are pushing outward and upward. Its
immigrants are greedily snapped up
and put to work. and on every hand
the cry is, More mem"
American merchants and manufac-
turers are complaining bitterly to the
state department of the distractions
which Japan is offering to the estab-
| liShment of Chinese custom houses
in ports which control the Manchuri-
an trade. 1t is charged, declares the
| Atlanta Constitution, that under the
| excuse of military eXigency, Japan
| csc officials are preventing the en-
trance of American goods into Man
! churia, while the Japanese merchants
are allowed to get their goods in free
OF duty. ."".....
sand in certain recent public utter
ances of Milwaukee's young mayor,
Sherburn NJ Becker. $50 long as |
am mayor" he said last week, no
trap set for the unwary youth OF
either sex shall remain set if l Cal.
discover it, and to those who ma,
take offense at this determination /
have only word to say: l do not
care what you think or what you may
do. l do not want the support or in
dorsement of dive keepers.
Andrew Carnegie, in The Nine
teenth Century, writes of himself las
a citizen of a continent under one
flag" Go to, thou Laird OF Skibo.
exclaims Town Topics. HE thee to
one of thy libraries and learn that
the continent, of part of which thou
art citizen, is under fourteen flags
at least, and the flag which waves
over the northernmost part covers
over 100000 square miles more than
that on which the Stars and Stripes
flies Indeed, Canada comprises one
sixteenth Of the land surface of the
globe.
In the Westminster Magazine, Prof.
Adam Shortt, prominent Canadian
writer, declares to his cOuntrymen
that Canada has reached the point |
in government where she is re-
quired to take part in the shaping |
of the great continental policy known
as the Monroe doctrine. He holds
that the doctrine is of British origin, |
and was promoted for the preserva-
ton of British interests in America; |
that, with the growth of the self-gov-
erning spirit in Canada, England has
been disinclined to take the initiative
in matters relating to the American
continent, thereby throwing the re-
sponsibility upon Canada; and that,
as the Monroe doctrine is subject to
gradual change, it is the duty of Can
ada to assume it's share in shaping
these changes.
The last fiscal year was for Can
ada the greatest in the history of her
commerce. American interest in this
trade development is fairly illus
trated by the fact that the United
States sold to Canada 61.4 per cent.
Of all her purchases. Her imports
last year, notes the New York Press.
from the United States alone were
only a little less in value than her
total imports from all countries In
1900. England is the heaviest buyer
in our markets, with Germany in
the second place and Canada in the
third. The United States suppSed
GA per cent. of Canada's foreign re-
quirements; England supplied 23.5
per cent; France, 2.6 per cent; Ger.
many, 2.3 per cent; and her pur-
chases from all other lands are In
Guided in the remaining 1912 per cent.
On a little more than $94,000,000
worth Of our merchandise duty was
charged; but $S6.529,291 worth was
admitted free of duty. It is probable
that Canada takes from us a larger
range Of merchandise than any other
Of our customers.
The Boston Globe thinks we should
DO well to listen to the words Of Dr..
Sem, who, returning from
the heart of Africa, speaks Of the
cause Of diseases, especially the ter.
rible ones like cancer. DR.. Senn's
message is a simple one, but not less
wise on that account. He says that II
We ate more plain food and consum.
ID less elaborate repasts there would
,e no cancer. Among the pygmies OF
darkest Africa, whom he had the op-
,ortunity Of studying, he said that