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The following diagrams illustrate the method: L'exemplaire film6 fut reproduit grflce d la g6r4rosit6 de I'Atablissement prAteur sulvant : La bibllothdque des Archives pubiiques du Canada Les cartes ou les planches trop grandes pour dtre reprodultes en un seul clich6 sont film^es d partir de I'angle sup6rieure gauche, de gauche d droite et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images n6cessaire. Le diagramme suivant illustre la mdthode : 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 S 6 *4 (?1 I I ij \fijSl,>-S^ i*-5t?'»' -ps^itt^rsrs^ »'it:$rt3tS^*r*vSljL'«'^»5>:frfcS^i^iifeS^zSr3 FROM HON. EDWARD -iv' BLAKE'S FAMOUS SPEECH Delivered in the CaaadieA House of Commons, April letli, ^380. Canada v. Kansas Extracts from the Remarkabie Speech delivered in the Canadian House of Oommons, April 16th, by the HON EDWARD BLAKE, the Leader of Her Majesty's Opposition. Zir 1880 KANSAS IS THE FIEST WHEAT A27D FOURTH COEN-GEOWIKQ STATE IN THE UNION. Ron. Mr. Blake says:— "The population of the State of Kansas in 1870 was ;360,()0(), and in 1879 SSO.QOOi making an incrkask OF 490,000 IN THK NINE YEARS. In this was to he included a laige natural increase, as well as an increase owing to large immigration from the Eastern States. This was not an indication that the popula- tion of the North West would in ten years reach 550,000. But the state of things was not equal. What was the position of Kan.sas at the? commencement of the epoch which the Hon. gentleman had taken as his starting point ? Besides a population of 360,000, it had no less than 1,500 miles of railway in operation, so that at the commencement of the epoch of rapid increase there had been a considerable devel- opement of railway facilities, and during that decade those facilities had increased, so that there wkre 2,300 milks in operation in 1879. In 1866, Kansas ranked twenty-fourth among the States of the United States as a corn-growing State, WHILE IN 1879 IT HAD GONE UP SO THAT IT WAS THE FOURTH. In the earlier period it was the twenty-fourth as a wheat grower, while by 1879 IT HAD RUN UP SO IT WAS ALMOST THE FIRST in that respect, HAVING PRODUCED ^ THIRTY-TWO MILLIONS OF BUSHELS. V^ith all these evidences of progress, and all these ADVANTAGES, wlth a large natural increase from a population of 360,000, we find but 490,000 added to the population of that State in nine years ; and yet we were told that over 550,000 irrespective of the natural increase would altogether be added to the population of the North West in ten or eleven yeai-s." Canada a Native Recruiting Ground for the United States. Hon. Mr. Blake says : — " He would now ask them to compare out own circumstances with those of the Western States in these particu- lars. First of all let them look at the native recruiting ground of of ite of he of wliicli hv. had spoken, that constantly Increasing population from which they chew so liberally to po(^ple the Western territory. How J)00 of people — directly because many of our [teople had gone to these States, and indirectly because many had gorie to the East to displace tIios(> who h.id wert thence to the Western territories. It was (juite clear that a consideralile number of oui' peoph,' would go to the manufacturing centres, and that others would go to the AGIHCULTURAL REGIONS OF THE WESTERN STATES IN SPITE OF THE INDUC' MENTS OFFERED TO THEM IN OUR OWN NuRTH-Wf.ST." PROF. COLDWIN SMITH'S CONFIRMATION OF THE ABOVE. Prof. Goldwin Smith, in The Bystander for May says: — "An exodus to th( United States is going on from all the Provinces. As many as tiOO persons went from St. John in one week, and 400 from Montreal. An inquiry made by the London Ad ^ivtiser shows that numbers are leaving Ontario, and most of them for the States." Also. '• It is only to hv. hoped that the 1,000,000 OF NATIVE-BORN CANADIANS now on the south of the line will not be compelled to fight upon the Yankee side." Canada's Debt versus The United States' Debt. Hon. Mr. Blake says: — "^ While Canada had been doubling its national debt, the United States had taking care to present to the people of Europe the uniqut example of an enormous reduction in its national debt, and in the burdens of its people, and to that circumstiance he attributed (»ne of our greatest difficulties in competing with that country. There was no use of blinking the fact. He durst say Hon. gentlemen would say it was unpatriotic to state it, but it was true, and therefore it was proper to allude to it. The emigrant looked to a country where ids burdens would be lighter, which pi'eserited a brighter prospect than in his own country. He w^as told by the United States that they had reduce \ their war debt over $100,000,000. that they had reduced the load of interest, and that they were now on a career of relative productiveness. That was the V)right statement they presented, and he wanted to know whether it was not prudent for the people of Canada, competing with the United States for the emigra- tion of Europe, not to increase its public debt and public burdens, — not to present a contrast too unfavorable to that which was presented by the United States. . . . While our tax-paying power had not increased since the period of the last census, our gross expenditure had increased by 8,800,000, or nearly SIXTY-SIX per cent. (Hear, hear.) , I iie iiicruasea in some particular eases were enoriiiouM. For instance, I'ojit OlHce expenditures liad increased 200 per cent., and cliart^es on the revenue t2 per cent. In 1871, the debt v\ah Jil;77,000,000, in 1S7