HOW IT ALL CAME ABOUT 21 



her great neighboring Republic to the south 

 of her, yet what laws she has are generally 

 well enforced; so that, although the immi- 

 grants that have poured into her domain are 

 made up of Russians, Poles, Serbs, Bulgars, 

 Italians, Chinese, Japanese, Laplanders, Scan- 

 dinavians, French, Spaniards, Portuguese, 

 Germans, Turks and Arabs, besides a host 

 from Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England 

 herself, they all bow to the laws of their 

 adopted country. 



Therefore, as law and order have been uni- 

 formly maintained in all of the provinces and 

 territories of the Dominion of Canada, cap- 

 ital has been safe, as well as the lives and prop- 

 erties of the great public at large. 



It is a remarkable tribute to the efficiency 

 and the administration of the law by the Ca- 

 nadian Judiciary that the Dominion has been 

 able to assimilate all of the discordant human 

 factors that make up her population and weld 

 them together into one harmonious and indus- 

 trious whole. 



There has been nothing in the world's past 

 history that has ever approached this devel- 

 opment of a new country-empire (may we 

 so call it?) in such a short space of time, and 

 that, too, without the use of military force, 



