Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1910 — CANADA TO TAKE OVERFLOW. [ARTICLE]

CANADA TO TAKE OVERFLOW.

Member (of Senate Sara United btntea Will Be Crowded la Fifty Years. Expressing tfie conviction that within the next fifty years the surplus population of the United States would be forceShJo migrate, to Canada, James Domville John, N. 8., member of the Canadian senate, visiting New York, discussed present conditions in Canada, an exchange says. Mr. Domville has served thirty-seven years in the Dominion parliament, and is exceedingly well informed upon Canadian affairs and their relation to the future of Canada and the United States. Incidentally he predicted that Canada would become a great empire. “Within the next fifty years,” he said, “the United States will find it impossible to provide room for the settlers who seek homes within Its borders. Canada Is awaiting that time, for Its undeveloped territory will be the magnet that will draw the overflow from the United States. “We like Americans and their spirit of enterprise, and while our great northwest Is filling with Americans there Is ample room for millions more, and the sooner they come the better we will be pleased. “American capital Is finding the Canadian northwest a profitable field for investment. Immense sums have been invested in timber lands and the finest sawmills and railroads in the country are owned by Americans. There is much talk about an export duty on wood pulp and pulp wood, but if such a duty Is levied it will be as a conservation measure and not in retaliation against the United States. “If the United States needs our pulp It will come to us and pay our price, to our mutual advantage, just as we come to the United States for steel rails or any other commodity we need. We have no protective tariff in Canada, our tariff being for revenue only.” Mr. Domville said further that he did not favor the plan to establish a fleet for Canada in existing conditions. Battleships, he argued, become antiquated within a few years, but the money required to build them never becomes too old for general use. Three courses were open to Canada, he said—to cut loose from the mother country, to join the United States in an alliance of peace and business amiiy, or to consolidate a Canadian empire. While Mr. Domville expressed the belief that a Canadian empire would come, there was no way, he said, to tell how the countless thousands sure to occupy North America before the end of the twentieth century would view the project.