Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1918 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

NEW WSGREEIMS The Heads of Canada’s Western Provinces, and Their Message. The United States having been in the great world’s war for about nine months, the touch of war’s spirit has permeated the great commonwealth, and in every hamlet and district is felt and shown the interest that was to be expected from C people whose love of liberty and justice rises supreme to all else. Day by day their appreciation of what it means to give up now for the future happiness of themselves and the generations that fellow grows greater and greater. There will be losses c£ laved ones, but there will be no badge of mourning to Indicate the great sorrow that will be felt. It is realized that the sacrifice is the toll that is demanded for making the whole world better, and, sensing this, there is preparation and willingness to sacrifice until the goal—the defeat and downfall of despotism—is assured. When the people look back, and see what Canada has done, and learn that Canada today is bigger and better than ever, they will take heart, and with Increasingly growing vigor carry on with a greater courage. Canada has been in the war for three and a half years. She has sent 400,000 out of a population of eight million, she has subscribed to Victory Bonds over and over again and there Is no sound of a whimper. At each demand that is made upon her resources, she meets It, and gets ready for the next. Recently her people were asked to subscribe $300,000,000. She handed over $460,000,000.

Having already contributed 400,000 soldiers, Canada was recently asked to approve of sending another 100,000. With a sweeping majority, consent was given. How the war affects Canada Is best shown by the willingness of the people to contribute.' They, too, realize the great and noble part they are taking in this great conflict. They are a unit on making the world better. Canada’s wealth was never shown to better, advantage than in the present struggle. It possesses great wealth in the soil, In Its mines, Its other natural resources, and wonderful riches In the tenacity and courage of its men and its women. The soil and she climate, and the bardihood and determination of the farming class to win, by cultivating and cultivating, growing wheat and raising cattle to build up the resources so necessary to carry on the war, are factors that will count. . Probably the best word of encouragement comes from the Premiers of the three great provinces where the bulk of the food products will come from. When one reads what these men, prominent In their country say, It gives Inspiration. If there are any who may be pessimistic of the future, the message that these gentlemeif send forward should remove all doubt. Three and a half years in the war, able to speak as they do, the future should look bright to those who may have their seasons of doubt! Hon. T. C. Norris, Premier of Manitoba, says:

“Manitoba has prospered exceedingly during the year 1917, and the new year finds us not only still ready and willing, but unceasingly able to bear whatever burdens the fourth year of the war may bring. “Manitoba farmers, generally speaking, have never been in better condition to carry on. Out of her prosperity Manitoba is giving lavishly toward the winning of the war. Every appeal for funds has met with quick aiid generous response. The people of the Province are well settled Into the collar In all war efforts. There’s a spirit of determination, of willingness to make sacrifices, of confidence in the certain outcome, of which there is no room for pessimism. Manitoba will carry on." Saskatchewan had a prosperous and successful year In 1917, and when Premier Martin sent out his New Year message It was filled with an optimism that was fully warranted. “There Is no doubt that the province today is in a better condition financially than ever before. True, the effects of the town and city real estatf boom have not altogether passed away, but speaking generally, the farmers on the plains and the merchants In the towns are In a better financial position today than at any previous time. Our people are industrious and progressive. “While we have in some portions of the Province a mixed population, education and scientific methods are making rapid strides and we are looking forward with every confidence to a glorious future and the development of a people on the central plains of Canada, of which the whole Dominion and the British Empire will have every reason to be proud." While Alberta has given over to the war thousands of her virile manhood, thus taking from the farmer a large percentage of'its producers, it still stands up big and buoyant The farm help thus temperarily removed means a demand for farm help and increased farm effort to till its highly productive acres. Hon. Chas. Stewart, Premier of Alberta, in a message to the people on Gie Ist of January, speaks with such buoyancy and hope of the future and so highly of the work of the past year, that his statement is reproduced. He says: “The prosperity of the farming communities is reflected in the towns and cities by increAsM wholesale business and bank clearances. Wholesalers report increases from 20 per cent to 25 per cent and their collections the best tn the history of the Province. Alberta being essentially an axricultv- U Province at the present time ■ condi-