arming province ten million dollars'
worth of food is yearly imported. Why is this? Why is Canada not
producing all the food she consumes? Because in certain sections only
one settler goes out to the farm for four that live in the town.

In the West, if you add up the population of all the cities, you will
find that one-fourth as many people live in the cities as in the
country. In one province you will find that out of half a million
population, three hundred thousand are living in cities and towns.
This is the province that imports such quantities of food. It is also
the province that has more labor trouble than all the other sections of
the Dominion put together. Demagogues harangue the city squares for
"the right to work," "the right to live;" and mill owners, farmers,
ranchers, railway builders go bankrupt for lack of men to work. It is
the province where the highest wages in the world are paid for every
form of labor. It is also the province where the greatest number of
people are idle, and neither you nor I nor anybody else, can convince
the idle stone mason who demands eight dollars a day that he keeps
himself idle by not accepting half that figure. He is not dealing with
"the robber baron" capitalistic class. He is dealing with the humble
householder who wants to build but can not afford workmen at eight
dollars to five dollars a day, when he could afford workmen at four
dollars to a dollar and fifty cents a day.

In 1800 only four per cent. of the United States population was urban,
and ninety-six per cent. was rural. By 1910 only fifty-three per cent.
of the population was rural. Similarly of France and Great Britain.
Sixty-five per cent. of France's population is rural, and France is
prosperous, and her people are the thriftiest and most saving in the
world. They with their tiny savings are the world's bankers. In the
United Kingdom, the rural population has decreased from twenty-eight
per cent. to twenty-three per cent. of the total population. How about
Canada? In 1891 thirty-two per cent. of Canada's people lived in towns
and cities. By 1901 thirty-eight per cent. were town dwellers. By
1914 the proportion in towns and cities is almost fifty per cent.

The entire movement of population from country to city is reflected in
the astounding growth of the cities. In 1800 Montreal had a population
of seven thousand; in 1850, sixty thousand; by 1914, almost half a
million. Similarly of Toro