THE EMPIRE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 20, 18 October 1907, Page 7

THE EMPIRE.

CANADA AND THE ALI RED ROUTE. PREMIER DETERMINED. t . EARL GREY FORESHADOWS A GREAT DESTINY. BY TELEGKANI—rRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Rcc. Oct. 17, 9.52 p.m.) Ottawa, October 17. Earl Grey, , Governor-General of Canada, speaking at Port Hopo, Ontario, said that now the people of the United Kingdom wore bearing the chief burden of Empire, but tho time was coming when Canada, owing to its territorial size, population, and moral influence, would bo able to tako the paramount shara in controlling tho greatest empiro over known. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Premier of Canada, speaking at Halifax (the capital of Nova Scotia, and tho principal Atlantic port of Canada), said:— " Tho All Red lino shall, must, will succeed. It is only necessary that tho British Government shall do as much for Canada aa it has dono for steamships going to the United States." Lords Strathcona and Brassey, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Sir Joseph Ward, and other Imperial statesmen, liavo enthusiastically supported an All Red route from Britain to Australasia, via Canada. The cost of the fast.. Atlantic sendee required has been estimated at half a million. Sir Charles Dilko, who 'opposes the scheme, says it, will provide only, a summer service,- and that if all tho first and second class passengers on the Canadian route, and half tho third class used an All Red lino there would still be a loss of over a million It is maintained by other critics that, with tho double transhipment, the All Eed Route cannot be a cargo one, and that the big sums required from colonial Governments wonld bo better expended in fostering the produce trade.