Booming Canada.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 8, 11 January 1904, Page 4

Booming Canada.

Canada is evidently compensating herself for her so-called territorial losses in Almska ; by exploiting her prosp?rity. 'l'hn Canadian newspapers after the ra ;l.Um oi tliose in the Unite-;! States, have for headlines " Canada the prosperous," " the Uor.'Jerlu 1," " Canada's Magnificent Outlook," " (.'aiia<la has Arrived," L-tc. The sentiments of good fei'ling uivj aie the showing 0l tht. latest Cunavlian 'nine Book on the trade and commerce of the Dominion, prepared for a coiw gress of Oham.X'rs oi*Commerce. The pamphlet says : —"* The marvellous growth of Canada since confederation in 1W57, in every branch oi trade and commerce, has not, been equalled pelcapita by any other British colony or fureigm country i n that period." Trade has -doubled in loss than 12 years. In the last live years the per cemtage of growth in trade, as compancJ with other ten couuti'ies— Italy, Ai (cuticle, .1 apan. United States, Capo Colony, Ueniuuiv, CJrcat Brii-ain, Bel-ilum, Switzerland, and I-'rance—has been U'1.97 per cent, or over one-t-hind greater than nny other counti;v 'in Mie worla. At the first gfiance the statement niigiit Phallonge dispute, hut the large ar.ray of comparative figures, adjusted attractively, seems to settle the matter—that is, if figuix's do not lie. Wiitih a largo population pouring in tiie western part of the Dominion, tiie adoption of imperial railroa-d schemes, tiie buijdiing of now lines oi railway, Canada has stai-Ud on the high road to prosperity. The Canadians are in clover. They are without doubt making ui excellent showing and we are glad with them.