The New York herald., 1872-11-23
Facts and Figures for the
loyal Leader.
Why Half a Million Canadians Emil
grated to the United States.
THE GREAT KANUCKIAH LOYALTY"
John Bulls Money Bags and Subsi-
died Wild Railroad Schemes.
Horrors of the Republic in a De-
~. ranged Mind.

Horrors of the Republic In a De-
-. ranged Mind.
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Plain Language and Plain Facts by
One OF Canada's Citizens.
70 THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
Having formerly been for some years connected
with the press In Canada may be able to throw
some light on the Canada question, about which
the Toronto Leader processes to speak authOrita-
lively IA Its reply to your judicious remarks. In
the first place desire to draw attention to the
important fact that the United States census for
1870 shows that nearly half q million natlve-born
Canadians were then residing in the United States.
This Is an increase OF nearly 10000 during the
previous decade say sixty per centin ten years.
The whole population OF the Dominion, in
.cluding also Newfoundland and Prince
Edward Island and the territories all
the way to the Pacific, since annexed
to the Dominion, was, in 1870, less than four
mlli0ns 1t therefore appears that one-eighth Of
the whole population and those OF native origin,
OF all British North America or twelve and half
per cent, had, for some reason, migrated to the
great Republic Nor does this by any means in
clude all who had for the same reasons as may be
presumed, migrated across the borders from that
boastedly prosperous country. 1t has been mat
ter Of continued regret on the part Of the Canadian
pross for quarter OF centurY-but more par ticu-
iarly during the last seven years, since our
war-that the loyal English, Scotch and
other European emigrants into Canada,
brought there at much labor and expense by the
Canadian government will not "stick." 1t is not
many months since l saw q paragraph in your
journal, copied, think, from this same jealous
British Leader of Toronto, stating that q large
pr0portion-over half of all these immigrants
tarried only for brief period in the Dominion,
and then 'moved onn to the United States at the
rate Of twenty or thirty thousand year. 1t will
not, / will venture to remark, be q violent pre-
sumption to say that both the natives and the new
corners emigrated from the provinces because they
found no profitable employment there, or at least
saw larger field and better prospects for them in
the United States.
These half million Canadians, can state from an
extensive knowledge Of the class which leave the
Dominion, are superior in education, intelligence
and productive capacity TO the bulk Of those who
immigrate here from Europe. They are, indeed,
mainly of two descriptions young gentle
men who have been qualified by their parents for
there is but little scope at home; and skilled me-
chanics who are drawn to this country by Its
Of
on the causes which have produced these results,
and which are now in active operation, have long
since arrived at the conclusion that there can
no sound and permanent prosperity in the British
provinces. while they remain provinces. They
trade with the United States (which can.
not be while they remain as they are), or else
OF ey re
without occasional and spasmodic periods Of prog
ress One OF these is Just now developing ITSELF
The London Times understands the Canadians
when 1t imputes to them the mercenary kind Of
loyalty which sells itself LOT subsidies and loans
from England. They are just now building rail.
ways all over the country, and hundreds Of miles
through Wild, unsettled and bleak forests, where
penses 1s such as the intercolonisl because the
British government, as the Times says, bought
their acquiescence to the Treaty OF Washington by
endorsing the Dominion paper thus enabling them
to raise great sums at about four per cent interest
This Is not oil. They are now seeking for fur
build railway to the Pacific regardless Of how
much 1t will cost before 1t Is done, or how little 1t
% ys q s Pss
north OF Lakes Huron and Superior, when l say a
wilder and more visionary scheme was never set
paper, into 1t they will plunge. The cost of grand
ship canal from Montreal to the upper lakes,
half the vast western trade, would not
reach q quarter that OF such railway
through 1000 miles Of mountains rivers
and lakes. But railways are the rage and the pro-
prietor Of the Leader, always takes hand In "big
Jobs" Before he became the happy owner OF that
journal he was outspOken in favor OF annexation.
But that was before the great annexation era
when the plague was stayed by the promise OF the
RECIPROCITY treaty InaQe W Inc DIioh unSeoI III
the Colonies, Lord Russell and the expenditure OF
q hundred millions on railways.
Imade visit to Western Canada not long ago.
and found the annexation party paralyzed by the
hopes generally entertained that John Bull would
come down once more with his money bags, to help
through the Pacific Railway. There was however,
everywhere a strong feeling that when he buttoned
up his breeches pockets the loyalty Of Canada would
depart forever. You WILL therefore, see that the
time for discussing the Canadian question is hardly
opportune. II they could be stirred rp to enlarge
their canals, so as to admit OF steamers such as
are owned by the Allen Company going to the
Goals from Newcastle to London, going to Cleve-
land, England can secure never.1aing supply of
cheap Goals and tap the Western business near its
sources. There's an idea for them at any rae.
NATIVE "CANUCK."
NEW YORK, Nov, 81, 1872.