Excerpt from Commercial Union With Canada From an United States Point of View: Speech of Erastus Wiman, Before the Commercial Bodies of Detroit and Buffalo, August 27 and 30, 1887 But no matter what area is afforded, no matter what are the advantages offered, population and occupancy are the essentials to make all these available. Through the United States there is now coming a vast army of European emigrants, that, if the border line were imperceptible, would as. Readily occupy the vast stretches of the Canadian Northwestern Provinces as anywhere else. If, by sinking out of sight the barriers that divide the two countries, the United States could get the trade that these new comma nities would create, why should she hesitate to do so. 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.