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PROBLEMS OF EMPIRE. who come from the United States, and if we want to make these loyal to the British connection we shall have to substitute the tie of interest for the tie of sentiment, and make it more worth their while to grow wheat under the British flag than under that of the United States.

From Winnipeg I came back to Toronto, having been invited to attend a meeting of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, and to give an address at their reception in the Parliament Buildings, Toronto. The Canadian manufacturer, like most other manufacturers, to whatever country they may belong, desires protection for his own industry. But I can assure you that the Canadian manufacturers—at any rate, all those I saw, and I saw most of the leading members of that Association —are loyal Britishers, and while they desire a rearrangement of the Canadian tariff for the benefit of their own industries, they also desire such a rearrangement in order to give a more effective preference than that which exists at present to the products of the mother country as compared with those of Germany and the United States. 'Canada for the Canadians' was the cry one heard a good deal of in Canada. But I am satisfied that if Mr. Chamberlain's policy were carried out there would be such an enormous development in Canada that there would be room both for the British and Canadian manufacturer. In the course of my address to the Canadian Manufacturers' Association I turned to Mr. Ross, a man well known in Canada, the Premier of Ontario, and said to him, 'What would have been the population of Canada to-day if Mr. Chamberlain's policy had been in force for 178