Within the lifetime of men now living, the Dominion will become a part of the United States; this is fate not politics, evolution not revolution, destiny not design.

How it will come about no man can tell; that it will come about is as certain as fate.
With an area almost exactly that of the United States, Canada has a population of but five millions, or about one-fifteenth the population of this country.

Between 1891 and 1901 the population of the Dominion increased only five hundred thousand, or about ten per cent., as against an increase of fourteen millions, or twenty-one per cent., in this country.
For a new country in a new world Canada stagnates.

In the decade referred to Chicago alone gained more in population than the entire Dominion.

The fertile province of Ontario gained but fifty-four thousand in the ten years, while the States of Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio, which are near by, gained each nearly ten times as much; and the gain of New York, lying just across the St.
Lawrence, was over twelve hundred thousand.