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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ld haveshipped her products by a thousand short-linefeeders into the big markets just across aninvisible boundary. If the tariff wall werebuilt so high along that boundary that shecould not ship south, then she must ship eastand west. What did that mean? It meantthat she must spend a billion dollars on trans-continental railways and canals. It meantthat she must send her commercial agentsscouring the world for markets. It meantthat she must get immigrants—get immi-grants at any cost. It was Sir John Macdonalds Governmentthat laid the foundations for the railwaysand canals east and west. It was ClifTordSifton, as Minister of the Interior underLaurier, who had the world scoured for mar-kets, and who, with Mr. Fisher and Pro-fessor Robertson, really created Canadasforeign markets. It was Clifford Sifton,who inaugurated the immigration policythat has filled the Canadian Northwest withsettlers and brought the hum of prosperitywhere was before the silent inertia of deadi)dull, hard times.
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THE GREEN FLAG OF THE PROPHET AND THE TYPE OF FIGHTERS WHO STAND READY TO DEFEND IT IN A HOLY WAR TRIPOLITANIA: THE ITALIANWHITE MANS BURDEN BY E. ALEXANDER POWELL CINCE the world began the arm of Italy^ has reached out into the Mediterraneantoward Africa, its finger pointing straight atTripoli. Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Van-dals, Byzantines, Arabs, Spaniards, andTurks followed the suggestion of that fingerin their turn, but of them all only the Araband the Turk remain. In every case a colo-nial empire was the mirage which beckonedto those land-hungry peoples from behindthe golden haze which hangs over the Africancoastline, and in every case their Africanadventures ended in disappointment anddisaster. After an interim of centuries, inwhich the roads and ramparts and reservoirsbuilt along that shore by those primevalpioneers have crumbled into dust, the troop-laden transports of a regenerated Italy havefollowed in the wake of those Greek galleys,those Roman triremes, and those Spani

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