Thas it will be seen that Canada has troubles enough in connexion with ber immigration question, and it is a well that they have come early in her career. They have shown her the folly of desiring quantity rather thas quality in the immigrants to her shores, and have added force to the feeling throughout the Dominion that Canada must be a white country, It must not be forgotten that Canadiaot always before their eyes the alarming problem of the negroes in the States. their enormous annual increase, the fearful lyochings reported so frequently. and their growth in political power—sufficient, it is said, even now, if properly creanized, to decide the balance in s Presidential election. We have seen the effect of indiscriminate immigration from Great Britain; aad that from Europe is well illustrated by the troubles which the Ltaliso Isbourers cause by their murderous outbreaks, leading to whole gangs of them being searched and relieved of cruel knives; and by the Doukhobors who resist- the police, refuse food and endeavour to go about naked in search of Christ. Yet a further aspect of the question is the cost of the criminals and lunatics among their immigrants who are committed to our gaols and asylums, which cannot be gone into in this article. With all these facts be-
Canadian statesmen tonify, which has been given to few men, of creating a nation by careful choice of her immigrants which should have es of the race that has made the British Empire,
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