THE Waihi Daily Telegraph WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1905

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1349, 10 June 1905, Page 2

THE Waihi Daily Telegraph WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER

SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1905

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The substantia] increase in popu'aion, that New Zealand has enjoyed for thn last year or two has been due principally to the name attained by the, colony through the ■ practical sympathy it showed to tho Mother Cot/ntry during the Boer war, and to the fact that inducements in the way of reduced fares lire held out to British farmers with means to come and; settle on its. lands;: Inducements quite as temptingave now hel'l out by Canada, and to that country immigrants have also been flocking in thousands for a considerable time. Twenty years ago the greater part 0 f the Dominion was uncivilised, It was trodden only by the. redskin and the occasional hunter, To+day peopje by the hundred thousand are pouring into it from every country i)i Europe, From a work jftst issued by John Foster Fraser, the wtiter, who gave us insight into "The .Real Siberia," we find that Canada is,. more perhaps than any other land under the British flag, a country of mixed races,:, Out of a population of G,000,000.. souls, 2,000,000 are virtually: Frenchmen, owning no tie of ..blood with their British fellow-citizens. The great tide of.immigration that sets in to the Canadian shores year by year is made up of Englishmen, Scotchmen, and to a Jess extent Irishmen (who mostly go the Uiiited States), Germans, Austrian?, Italians, Kussians and Scandinavians, ■* tip. to tho end of June, 1901,n0 fewer than 130,000 new settlors - landed in Canada during .the,: year, and 75, per cent, of them were of the .farming class. Each, spring, sees an influx of an ever-increasing number of farmers from the United Slates, who find better land.and equal, if not greater, security- for life and prosperity in their adopted home. . One of the most curious features of the immigration into Canada is the coming of the United 'States farmer. The American sells his farm in the State?, and goes to Canada. He buys it farm three or four times as large .as the one lie had before, gets a free homestead thrown in, grows finer crops, and become rich. He is the best of all immigrants, because he is used to farming on a huge, rough scale, and lie is already used to the ways of the country. " He sees that the law is something to be respected," writes Mr Fraser, "and this cannot be said of the law in some of thn States, where it is as corrupt and feeble, as in the Balkans." We gather from this book that it is the frugal French element which is so strong in Canada that is largely responsible for the refusal of the Dominion Parliament to contribute anything towards tho expenditure on Imperial naval defence. As to the general body of .the Canadian people, Mr Fraser finds them very loyal to the British Empire, though quite indifferent to j England. In dealing with the inevitable question of preference this -.writer voices the view that the Canadians are very desirous that their own products should receive preferential treatment from Great Britain, but they are not prepared to allow British manufacturers to com- j pete with any Canadian industry,' They won id like to take from Great Britain ,those commodities which they requixv but do not . manufacture for themselves, and which at present they purchase mostly from the United States. Mr Fraser urges (though tht bulk of th» opinion of

representative .Canadian writers is against; him on this point) that if Great Britain, does not enter' into comprehensive preferential relations with Canada, tlio Dominion will accept the overtures of the United States for reciprocity. 1