Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1919 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

ffl ROOM FOR PESSIMISM Canada as a Nation Builder. Wiffix Canada’s great task in the war berore the public, the burdens that she so willingly took and so ably carried, and her recent. victory in subscribing $175,000,000 to the sth Victory Bond Loan more than she asked, h£ would be a skeptic who would associate the word pessimism with her present condition. Canada deplores the heavy human loss which she has suffered, but even those akin to those lost in battle say with cheerfulness that while the sacrifice was great, the cause was wonderful, and accept their sufferings with grace. It may well be said there is ho room in Canada today for the pessimist. The agricultural production of the country has doubled in four years. $140,000,000 are the railway earnings today or 3% times what they were ten years ago, while the bank deposits are now $1,733,000,000 as compared with $133,000,000 thirty years ago. There is a. wonderful promise for the future.

It is with buoyancy that Canada faces an era of peace. She has triumphed over the soul-testing crisis of war. Before the war Canada was a borrower, and expected to continue so for many years. For the past year and a half we have seen her finance herself. .... She has also been furnishing credits to other nations. A recent article in the “Boston Transcript” says: “The people at home have not been lagging behind the boys at the front in courage, resourcefulness and efficiency. The development of Canada’s war industry is an industrial romance of front rank. American Government officials can testify to the efficiency of the manufacturing plant Canada has built up in four short years. In Department after Department where they found American industry failed them they w’ere able to turn to Canada. The full story may be revealed some day.” The same paper says: “It is a new Canada that emerges from the world war in 1918—a nation transformed from that which entered the conflict in 1914. “The war has taken from Canada a cruel toll. More than 50,000 of her bravest sons He in soldiers’ graves in Europe. Three times that number have been more or less incapacitated by wounds. The cost of the war in money is estimated to be already $1,100,000,000. These are not light losses for a country of 8,000,000 people. Fortunately there is also a credit side. Capada has found herself in this war. She has discovered not merely the gallantry of her soldiers, but the brains and capacity and efficiency of her whole people. In every branch, in arms, in industry, in finance, she has had to measure her wits against the world, and in no case has Canada reason to be other than gratified.”—Advertisement.

Let us hope everyone gets what he wants and not what he deserves. Unemployment in Scotland has disappeared, due to the demand for labor.