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APPENDIX IL

Total assessable value of real and personal property
in Winnipeg :—

1874
1880
18g0
1900
1902

$2,676,018
4,008,460
18,612,410
25,077,460
28,615,810

Population of Manitoba.

J

1870 11,063

1821

62,600

1801 152,506

[001 254,046

The following extract from the Toronto Globe of
December 31, 1903, is an admirable expression in one of
Canada’s leading papers of a view of the question
which is widely prevalent in the Dominion :—
LOYALTY AND THE PREFERENCE.

In discussing Mr. Chamberlain's fiscal proposals
Canadians must be honest and frank and straightforward
 with Britain, Anything of the nature of
double-dealing, any attempt to gain for ourselves a
commercial advantage on the pretext of securing
Imperial unity, would be dishonourable in the extreme,