CANADA'S SUCCESS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 315, 26 November 1910, Page 6

CANADA'S SUCCESS.

WHY SHE IS EXPECTING A £6,000,000 SURPLUS. "I will tell you a little secret," said the Canadian Postmaster-General, the Hon. Rudolph Lemieux, to the members of the Sphinx Club at the Hotel Cecil last month. "We Canadians are proud of our enormous prosperity, and when Parliament meets at Ottawa the Minister of Finance, Mr Fielding, will be able to announce a surplus of more than £6,000,000 of ordinary revenue over ordinary expenditure. "The main cause of that abounding prosperity is the preference we give to British goods. "We shall maintain that British preference against all-comers. We ask nothing in return from the Mother Country; we do it with loyalty and with friendship; we do it because it has been the cause of prosperity in the Dominion of Canada. "Whatever may be the result of the reciprocity negotiations at Ottawa, the British preference will remain as the cardinal principle of our success, "Another great means of forging the Imperial bond is cheap rates of postage and telegraphy. By such means we must unite the scattered forces of the Empire if this Empire is to live,"