. THE OMINECA MINER, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1915

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SaTuRDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1915. No. 15

A year and a quarter of war and three years of economic
readjustment are the immediate background of conditions in
Canada today, says an American fiscal authority.

The effects of the war are in formation, readily inereasing in
importance—the effects of the economic readjustment are well nigh
complete. Considering Canada, if it is possible to do so, apart
from the effects of war, it is probably safe to say that when the
cash value of the present crop shal! have been realized, the progress
of liquidaticn and readjustment of values following the period of
construction and inflation will be complete, and Canada will be in a
basically sound position to advance. That is, to advance in
productive industry, not in construction works, promotions and the
growth of cities and towns beyond the requirements of the existing
population. oo

Sir George Paish’s statement to the: effect that Canada’s
“‘plant’’—her equipment for production and distribution—ig now
sufficiently complete for a ten-year period of production, is
descriptive of the situation, and the “plant” is now in’ running
order. What it can do on full time is itlustrated by the 1915 crop—
over double last year’s snd 85 per cent in excess of the largest
previous crop—the wheat crop more than a third as large as the
bnmper wheat crop of the United States, although the product of a
small fraction of the population of a country less than a tenth of
the size of the United States, The president of one of the large
Canadian banks estimates the total value of Canada’s field crops
this year at $800,000,000—$100 for every man, woman and child in
the Domirion. :

Contemporaneous with such a-production of wealth has been
the economy always popular in a period of reaction from excessive
spending—excessive so far as applied to non - essentials and
speculative unproductive enterprises—by no means excessive, I
believe, when applied to the erection of the great fabric of cities,
railways, factories, mines, and farms which Canada has in a decade
of wonderful energy completed to take care of a discovered West
and an unprecedented immigration.

The immediate and imperative demands of such a situation on

apital and labor to be devoted to construction should be recognized,
and it should be remembered that by far the most of this
expenditure was well invested and not squandered. ‘The boom’
may have “‘collapsed,’’ but the fabric has not, The foundation is
stronger than ever, Canada’s lands are as fertile as ever, and are
now more attractive to settler and investor than ever, for trans-
portation, living conditions, markets are better, and the proceeds
of a single crop—or perhaps two— will still buy the hest land in
the western provinces, Her mines and forests are still there, and
are richer than any promoter has pictured them. Her staple
manufactures are all needed to supply the normal demands of her
people, .
To sum up the situation, apart from the war, Canade’s plant
is now ready to pay dividends, and she invites capital asa seasoned
going concern and not as aconstruction enterprise, Canada’s
present favorable balance of trade, which will probably aggregate
$100,000,000 for the calendar year, ip certainly indicative of this as
compared with the unfavorable balance of a quarter of a billion of
three years ago. . - 0 ; _
a The real significance of the burden of war
expenditure on Canada can only be appreciated in connection with
her tax-paying, debt-paying power.

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tax’’ and a Federal income tax,
in addition to various direct tax-
es to. his state, county and muni-
cipality,; may well ‘envy the
Canadian, who has no direct
taxation of any consequence out-
sida of his city taxes,

An trish Answer

Papers have been published
proving the extraordinary -at-
tempts madein Germany to in-
duce Irish prisoners-of war to
form an Irish brigade to fight
against England and “‘liberate’’
Ireland. There is nothing sui-
prising in this, but the splendid

worthy of the traditions and the
real patriotism of their race. A
letter to the Emperor, drawn‘up

fxceptional treatment given to
the Irish ,prisonera—better food
and less work than the other
prigonera—but begs the Emperor
to ‘withdraw these * concessions
‘unless they can’ be: extended : to

to being Irieh Catholics,” aay the
signatories, ; ‘we have, the ‘honor
to be British soldiers," That
Answer would appeat to-ha the
true; solution. of the Irish prob+
lem, and it-ia entitled to-the-care-

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answer of the Irish soldiers is).

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