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nE CE . en -- Otna k L4 'C 'ea_ d m . ."';:;': :,'%;; "7_, "v 9 : :'_ inent"!onl::l »JCects" -- €. Some e said~that all this will cost ' || coast ang pays o_ LCCR to the Pacific Bo it will, but not beyond the. amaze the, q ioi PUCh up there to "r'fl"'ii': Province, or to an C:; [| heara muc,}?'~3lg;3,';81hmth9y rlnay have hat will -- t ('paeuc yo !| hope 5 us em. I have no ""ff""'*' tu'::.' g not a case of equal t:fith:l,e tl}']' this Province can ever J - ~but of wise invest-- ination of qp, [ NC"EY Oor the imag-- ment. Every mr we spend in tak-- '('urred io uy west. _ It has never oc-- C ing settlers iuto those regions and in @rAl Gover 8 to demand of the Fed-- Improving the facilitiee of transport !lng d"man:;T;m. much that is now be-- T will ase the value of the Govern-- | have eve e lfwm other quarters. We $ 2@" y in land and timber th t _considered, for instance, B , ment's property in | that impediments to the navigati & | {f6 &,memlfl- It is thus a policy of | 10C&1 Strea $ _ the n:nip.atlon_uf | ing a little money to Increage our inlpwlinwt'ltrlmt An E¥ponymous _ with f tal gaccount and our x-evenu%asl for consequently &,g;'t'iit':;lt((xl Iiu.{).gresls. l?d * e future. There is no other ref- gations. If that were so \\"1 H_ma" iY : fw which it.can be done so casily the Dominian Minister of I'Pfil(n;)i?-( "((,.»:'lrf f %witb Hahiet y n rctm;ns. »{-thitc,:\erf gliding about through the |h~:'(i\|\llit'}l(l? ie 'gytfe'u':i(:np:g::;eml?e']')r?;ent more h'l:u""s and lakes of northern Ontario § rom » m alil _ next summer inspecti rs § ' tm another it is a general QPSlrg tf}(:l' | and other nhstru('titlmis 'tf:ngu\")i(:r';l{'i::ls "rigig economy in' every branch o" ( € which, judging from recent -h-r§mml§ E: «public service. Eceonomy and slmpfi"ll}: elsewhere, it is clearly his duty t:: re- i the administration of publl('.fl %':" move. And then I have not heard it f) e as necessary as personal t'xugfl a)- 20 much as hinted that the Dominion § a at the present time to the \aSth"t\ 1 Minister of Railways has heen formu-- {9 of our people.. So thn't ':15':ont lating any policy for the development } $ say is not only perfectly t]onb' the of these national resources which lie (wh with economy, but it shoul p will within the boundaries of this Province, _very promoter of it. Econom.y But in British Columbia the other day ¢ wige expenditure that e --r M 3 e 9A ever prevent a returns it was announced that requests for certain to produce ample retu d-nl the building of new railways at the ve not much faith in lt\d'e'pell :md expense of the country were made up-- [ ays in these days. I ht'-"':'f (% on him to the extent of about 2,000 al of sympathy with thu.seut a-x::-d miles, involving a trifling expenditure [ y exist, in spite of the we -me;l i of about fifty millions or more of pub-- | ; eks that we so often make on t t'i"~ lic money. Now, sir, let me say that I ®} it thegmce in the D.om ie have the utmost desire as a Canadian| 1 that offers still a _h"'p"'fu' 1iha!'l"('<_ to see the rapid development of thflk{ _for ar independent railway i" $ But mineral and other resources of British E/ ~--tween Port Arthur and wf'}" p('i'"w it Columbia. Through all my life I have [ _ '3 --have no desire to discuss Puild had special reasons to feel a friendly { ~ guld be built, or who should ""' (' interest in that country. I have been * F' My simple contention is this, tha through it. and have felt the inspir-- 4 rmnment owes it to that ('I'Dlln' ing influenté of the eager, 7 P2r2d should vbgf _pu.s,!wd' brainy, clever men _ who havef | a :71' Ees "};'"t |always formed its population, and of k/ ' inspo e ky and 1+ l | the marvellous scenery that looks down},| ces ca) 'shall be provide« | upon the wealth of gold and silver and [« } 6t development of northern On-- | ' timber everywhere. But, speaking here 1 10%» . * _ I before the representatives of this Pro-- W . g consider for a onz | vince, I might point out that the Crow's $ be benefited by the | ; Nest Pass Railway, for instance, which|_| M of these regions. Not everybody seoms to think should \' @ the few people who are seattered be built, which I have -- long s tThrough them now, hoping I_l;:uin_sl hope contended should be built, _ is, E»*'. through years of adversity for the according to the press and public ) dawn of a better day now in sight. But mer of EBritish Columbisr, more of a ) if I were pleading for them I should local road, and may have no greater| _ -- remind you that, however economical claims on the national exchequer than E_ we desire to be, however limited the such a scheme as I have mentioned-- .') resources of this Province, we should the Rainy River Railway. -- The proof .:3 «mot lose sight of the fact that much of of this contention is so clear that it is \{ "our resources, much of our revenue, has not necessary to give it. The bress and W _ come from northern Ontario during all citizens of British Columbia have sup-- [ these years. If they asked us to re-- | plied it by pointing out that this rail-- § turn a portion of it to promote thei ,\x:-,.\' will merely benefit the Kootenay [ \prosperity ard our own, surely th | district, and to the injury of some oth-- a9 claim is reasonable. And in consider-- | er districts of British Columbia, untess [ _/ Jing this question of expenditure we | connected with other and vast pro-- P should remember that every dollar, as jects of extension. But, apart altogeth-- _ I have said, is likely to return to the er from that fact, I contend that, to J' Province tenfold. But, sir, there is noi fvyery part of the Dominion east of Al-- pa| & portion of this Province which would berta, the development of North On-- & bot be benefited by the development | lario is of as direct and vital import-- F -- and prosperity of the north. Every in-- ance as that of British Columbia. New $¥ dustry in Ontario would gain by it. Ontario is the spinal column of Con-- iThis woulid be the true N.P. You federation. I do not know that I should "' 'Kknow what it would mean to Toronto carry the figure too far, but I may [ as a commercial centre, which is with-- speak of the Maritime Provinces as the |'_ in easy reach both by land and water head (they will not object to it, as I of Sault Ste. Marie, Port Arthur, Sud-- have been told that they produce the [ _bury--and Kat Portage. It would mean brains of the country); in Quebec and |[ _ much to the farmers, the fruit--grow-- old Ontario we have the arms, the ul ers, and others all over this Province heart, the lungs;we have the limbs and for many years to come, pending the feet to the west; but in this New On-- i " development of agrieculture there. And tario we have the backbone of the } @, it would mean the same to the far-- #% i"'h"lt'- Population | will stiffen, our C mers of Manitoba and the Northwest, Iv.".i kbone. /. perhaps even more to them than the I b-u!nv years ago we completed a '('"flh- . development of British Columbia. #+Our | necting link between the Provinces, at [ sister Province is quite as much, per-- | fabulous expense. We in Ontario re-- y$ . haps »more, interested in this region & cognized the necessity of it, and paid 41,'1' than we ourselves. Ottawa and Mont-- our, the greatest, share, although we| . real sre making rather aggressive ef-- may have done it with a groan. It wast ".'_ --Zuxts to secure in advance the benefit done years and years before the nut~~ of what they see coming, $o that wu---- ural dey el';p.""'"t of the country would MA¥ bee has as great an interest as we in Ni f . LC expenditure. | For wha tRA New Ontarlo. Of the Maritime Pro-- reason ? To satisfy and please the great n k e west. With all this in mind, when| yvinces it may at léeast be said that national projects are foot, emanat -ff:.' they will receive more from the de-- national projec © 216 on foot, emanal ~Fuid h e fo I ing from that great w est, we merely| OR velopment of Ontario than from the ; k that they should be judged in I % ty progress of the regions beyond. | n.s\. a ey should be ju t';e'( n hon--L" Pp l est relation to national interests in On-- 4s THE DOMTNION'S bDUTY. tario. Take that railway, the Cana-' % 5e t dian Pacific. . In spite of matters nfu'vflf Now, sir, why do I mention all this? dispute connected with its origin, its' . _ Simply to make clear that whiie the powers and its management, its inter-- }__ _ development of this country seems the i| ests are wrapped up with the '.»msrwri'l Bupreme _ duty of this Legislature ty of this country to an @€tent which'} / = the sole duty of such development does | it would be difficult to exaggerate. For +3 not rest here. It is a matter of na-- years past it has heen dragging its ~ _ Flmp concern, quite as much as of Pro-- | trains through a wild, uninhabited and / ~ concern. I should be very surryl what was regarded as an almost ~ ) raise a local or Provincial is-- woerthless region,. ~Fill that region with | -- |= h other Provinces. It wouid a prosperous population and what} * not be easy to do so in Ontario, be-- would _happen ? The railway would{{ ¢_ ause she has shown patience in bear-- P nils a y Wl & im