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AND THE LARGER CANADA SUPPLEMENT A Vote for on Oct 26 is a for a Larger I i Ike I v iHKiarawH STRIKING SNAPSHOTS OP SIR WILFRID TAKEN DURING HIS ONTARIO CAMPAIGN STORY IN BRIEF OF LAURIERS RECORD Some of the Great Reforms Which Help Explain Canadas Prosperity AN AGGRESSIVE POLICY In Every Department Which Af fects Lives of People Has Had Results Inst lating In- tlrMii colonial the peoples railway a railways n the north and la adding to the length of tha inauguration of a system CANADAS PROGRESS HAS BEEN UNIQUE Efforts of Opposition to Belittle Dominions Prosperity Not Pact REST OF WORLD IS BEHIND THE CONQUERING OP WESTERN CANADA NO THE COMMANDERINCHIEF NO PARTISANSHIP NOW ON NATIONA RAILWAY Another Triumph of Liberal Administration to be Pound in Manage of the Intercolonial Leaks Have Been Stopped Road on Commercial Basis of tlDo Partisanship Discouraged in ithia progress has been the period thought upon t Development of the TWO TRADE IN CANADAf HISTORY Comparative Stagnation for 28 Years Stupendous Expansion in Twelve This chapter institutes a comparison between the record of Canadas growth in trade in the 28 years ending with 1896 and the years ending with 1908 Canadas Aggregate Trade 1868 112500000 Canadas Aggregate Trade 1896 217000000 J Increase in Years From the time of Confederation until 1896 the direction and control of the Canadian Government was with the exception of four years in Con servative hands During the whole of that period the aggregate of Canadian trade on domestic exports and goods entered for consumption advanced from to This Was an increase of or at the rate of three and threequarter millions a year Aggregate of Canadas Trade Aggregate of Canadas Trade 1 Increase in TWELVE Years 381 00 The twelve years which have passed since 96 afford a most striking contrast to the 28 years prior to 96 In the first period our aggregate trade increased by a little over 100000000 In the second and much shorterperiod the increase was well on to Against an average annual increase of three and threequarter millions in the first period there has been an annual increase of nearly in the second period One Period in Our Export Trade Exports Canadian Products Exports Canadian Prod 1896 Increase in Years 1060 The story of our total trade is duplicated in that of the export part of it the record of the sales of Canadian pro in other countries I 1S96 the exports of Canadian products amounted to Si an increase 60500000 in 28 years or an average of less than two and a quarter millions a year Another Period in Our Export Trade Exports Canadian Products 1896 Exports Canadian Products Increase in 12 Years 141000000 Compare the foregoing record for a 28year per iod with the 12year per iod which has occurred since The average annual increase in exports in the first period was a little less than two and a quarter millions a year the aver age annual increase in the second period nearly twelve million dollars a year THE TOTAL INCREASE IN OUR EXPORT TRADE IN THE LAST 12 YEARS HAS BEEN VERY MUCH MORE THAN DOUBLE THE TOTAL INCREASE IN THE PREVIOUS YEARS Again which will you have Unity progress and under or strife stagnation and depression ouch as blighted the country in the dark days before 96 I ARCHIVES OF ONTARIO