Excerpt from Canadian Railroads Versus Railroads of the United States: What Shall We Do About It? In the relations of the two countries to ea ch other touching the interests of transportation, we have' also, first and last, given much and received little. The State of New York, in the year 1826, completed the Erie Canal, from Lake Erie to the Hudson, and thus placed our Northwest Territory in commercial communication with the Atlantic seaboard. At once Canada began the construction of a system of improvements, embracing the Welland and St. Lawrence canals, costing in the aggregate about fifty million dollars, for the sole pur pose of competing for the same prize; and later on she has constructed a railroad system, which, like her canal system, draws its life-blood from American commerce. During the last fifty years the United States has con tributed hundreds of millions of dollars toward sustain ing the transportation lines and the commercial interests of Canada, and in return we have not drawn one-hun dredth part as much from the domestic and foreign com merce of the Dominion. Even now, while denying to our fishermen the right to ship the products of their in dustry through her territory to their home markets, her railroads are carrying millions of dollars' worth of American goods between American ports. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.