THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1907. CANADA ON THE PACIFIC.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8473, 28 June 1907, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1907. CANADA ON THE PACIFIC.

The Canadian Ccrier, in a comparatively recent: issue, discusses "Canada on the Pacific," and comes to the following conclusions:—"Of course Canadians are hot nearly so smart as the people of the United States. The latter are the greatest race since Adam. They have everything that is "the greatest in the world." Nevertheless, it looks as if Canada and Japan would soon control the major portion of the trade ort the Pacific Ocean. The Japanese are handling more and more of the trade between the' United States and the Orient. They are now carrying western wheat from Portland, Oregon, to Japan at one-third less than the merchant vessels of the United States can carry it. They are good sailors; their wages are low; their Government encourages them. Mr Hill's three million dollar "Dakota" is on the rocks near Yokohama, and Mr Hilljannounces that she will not be replaced. The "Dakota" and the "Minnesota" were to win the supremacy of the Pacific. The Japanese have won another battle. The Oceanic Steamship Company announces that it is to relinquish its service between San Francisco and New Zealand. This will leave the Canadian Pacific Line to Australia the only direct connection between the western cuast of North America and Australia. Australia and New Zealand apparently prefer the Canadian Pacific Railway Line, and their postal subsidies will go to it. Great Britain will probably support this all-British route to its most distant colony. Canada's aid is not in doubt. Freight and express traffic from California and other western points will now go up to Vancouver and Victoria, and there be transhipped for Honolulu, Fiji and Australia. The Canadian Pacific Railway steamers from Vancouver to Yokohama do not seem to suffer much from Japanese competition, though they may later. At present, these vessels are in receipt

of considerable British subsidies, and carry part of the British mail to the Orient that once went entirely by the Suez Canal. With improvements on the Atlantic, on their trans-con-tinental line, and on the Pacific, the Canadian Pacific Railway will increase its London-Yokohama carrying trade. Canada's shipments are increasing greatly. The trade with China, Japan, and Australasia will take wonderful strides with the settlement of the West. This.summary shows that, given equal terms, the Canadians are not one whit less enterprising or capable than the United States transportation experts. Canadians need not fear the struggle for supremacy on the Pacific. The speculative and extravagant habits of the United States financiers unfit them for long, keen struggles. Canadians are persistent and patient, and these are the dualities which win out. Let us have confidence and be steadfast, and the future is ours."