Year: 1873

The CANADIAN Pacific Railway is alreadJ


launched on the sea Of political strife, as every
one conyersant With such matters was sure il


would be. Under the act Of Parliament giving
the Government authority to grant charter tc


build the road with subsidy Of 9a0, ,00o, 900 and
| 50, ,000, GOO acres Of land: two companies were
formed, one headed by Mr. Macpherson, MEM


ber Of the Upper House Of the Dominion Parlia-


ment aud the leader Of the Opposition, and the
other by Sir Hugh Allan, q friend OF the Min


istry. Az WAS to be expected, Sir hugh and his


party carried off the prize, and now the Opposition


seek to make capital against the Ministry by
declaring that A1lan's Company is under the con-


troll of the Northern Pacific Railway, and in con-


spi1acy to make tho Canadian mere feeder to
the American ino- Tho Toronto Globe OF Feb.


2s has eight columns Of correspondence and


three columns OF editorial to prove that such an


arrangement has been contaminated. Granting


all that the Globe claims, it does net follow that


it the Canadian Company should for the ne1t
where 1t is plainly for it's own interest to
do so, that, therefore, the Canadian road would
be made subservient to American interests. It
Is simply an appeal to Canadian prejudice to
make political capital.


ABIDE from all this, and granting that the road
should be built as soon as possible,
ali sensible men must agree that it would be
ESQ, 900, 600 worse than wasted for the Company
to build the section from Lake Nipissing to
Fort Garry, some 800 or TOO miles, merely to
crafty national pride, while the Northern Pacific
will only be too glad to make the most liberal
arrangements for the use Of it's track between
Duluth or Superior to Red River. It is very
doubtful whether, il ever built, the section north
OF Lake Superior can be run for six months in
the year; and if finished now it would not have
business enough to pay the men for running the
trains. This country north Of Lake Superior is
go broken and utterly barren and deaolate that
only wild animals Of arctic habits have ever
been able to live there. Hence, il
the Allan Company build the limo, as
feared by the Globe. they will do what is GER
tainly the best, both for the road and for the Do
uainion. It cannot be for tho interest OF any
body to sink $50, ,ooo, 900 in worthless and ut
te1ly abortive Undertaking.


II the Canadians are ut all sensitive about
using portion Of q road on our side Of the line,
We urge that they open at once the st. Lawrence
route for large vessels. That would be equiva-
lent to an advance in the value Of the entire
farming lands Of the Northwest, equal to from
20 to 25 per cent, binding us not only to keep
the peace, but to grant them tho use
OF our railway lines on the same
terms as our own citizens. It would 50 lesson
the price OF the freight on our products that it
would add that much to the value OF every farm
within reasonable distance Of the 1akes. The
motives for the Globes opposition to Sir Hugh
Allan's Company are merely political, and should
not control as against the policy Of saving $780,
00o, 900. and getting much bettor location for
their limo Across the Continent"