The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-12-31
THE EXODUS PROM CANADA.
Why Many of its People are Emigrat-
ing to the United States


Why Many of its People are Emigrat-
ing to the United States
Toronto Globe.
It is not an inspiratIng task TO have to
record the depopulation of ones country
There is, however. nothing to be gained
by concealing from ourselves the extent
of the losses now being suffered by the
Dominion. Unless we realize the seri-
BUSINESS of the trouble we shall research
IN vain for the remedy. 1t Is an abso-
Lutte fact that in the year ending June
Both, 1880, TO- 39 Canadian settlers en-
tered the United States at the ports COM
prised in the district of Huron. This
does not include travellers, nor per
sons crossing the lines on visits nor
lumbermen. nor passengers to Manitoba,
but is the number of those who are
ascertained to be emigrants. Since the
Both of June, 1880, the rate of imigra-
ton has not slackened, but the reverse.
We will not throw the entire blame of
this loss of men and wealth upon the
government, though the claims made by
Its members few months ago fairly en-
titled us to do so. In great part the
movement is nothing but reflection of
the universal march westward-a move
ment which is going on almost as rap
lily in the European countries, and
quite as rapidly in the United States, as
in Canada. II would not be polite to
attempt to interfere with the natural
westward flow of the people. But there
are in this wholesale exodus some fea-
lures which can only be taken as indi-
eating bad state of affairs in the coun-
try which the people are leaving in such
swarms. The existence is proved of q
hopeless, dispiriled feeling an ong the
people, wish for any change which
may chance TO better their condition
Why is there such feeling abroad?
The fist cause of the dependency
which seeks relief in emf grafton is un-
doubtedly the reaction which has follow
ed the discovery of the baselessness of
the visions Of prosperity conjured up by
the advocates of the abortlve national
policy The new tariff has had dead
ening effect upon the business of the
country. 1t has retarded prosperity.
The promised new factories which were
to keep our sons and daughters at home
do not exist. The fact of the exodus is
| sufficient tOprove this. 1t is true that
| handful OF unskilled labOreIs have been
set to washing sugar, and a few extra
hands are engaged in making cotton
! But for each of these men the country
has to pay more than his services are
worth. Every one of them represents Il
ACdO lOSS. dtl npEOuACLlNC
propriated tax. The more there are of
them TO support, the less desirable a
country will this be for nineteen-twen-
| tieths of our population, for whom it is
| impossible 10 construct a protective
tariff. The national policy has reduced
| the margin of subsistence for all these
nineteen-twentieths.
Another cause for the exodus is un-
doubleday to be found in the reckless
disparagement of this country resorted
to by certain conservative orators and
journals when in opposition. We have
in pickle for certain persons quantity
of newspaper clippings relating to this
systematical disparagement of the
country, and some day they will be
brought forth, and there will then be q
sudden stop TO the coupling of Mr.
Mackenzie's name with Texas, and Mr.
Biake's with Kansas. No opposition in
any country ever pursued such an I'M
patriotic course as that taken by Cana
dian conservatives. The country, which
was then the most prosperous of the An
glo-Saxon communities, was represented
at home and abroad as financially bank
rupt and physically adesert. Its resource:
were beliltled. its present decried and it:
bad for a Tory Journalist to say of {
country in which he was in opposition
Doubtless all this elaborate lying had it:
effect. The tide of immigration wa:
turned away from it and the frantic eff
forts since made to regain a share of il
have resulted principally in giving q
good time to a few British delegates
fromwhose visits we have yet TO see thu
first sign of a remunerative result
The "rule or ruin" policy of the whilon
opposition has resulted in their as
sumption of both the rule and the ruin
The third cause of our loss of strength
f is the northwestern land regulations
conceived as they are in the spirit of tht
most Thoroughbred Torryism. Many
thousands of Canadians are settling il
Dakota absolutely because they wer,
not allowed to settle OH Canadian sol
as they desired to do. Hundreds o
them went to see for themselves befor,
they decided to change their alliance
Streams of Canadians might have beeI
: pouring into the northwest during tn,
last 10 months had it not been that the,
. found a barrier erected against them q
the frontier. Every man VINO had beeI
driven to Dakota by the land regulation
will be an active immigration
agent for his adopted home. Under
8 wise system most of the exiled Canadi
q ans might have been inviting their oil
5 neighbors to settle around then
: on Canadian soil instead @
!. American. This is the wors
( worst feature of the exodus. Those VIII
!. are leaving are the very pick of on
manhood, the most energetic of our pic
reer material. A few strokes OF a pc
and the greatest reproach of the govern
; ment might be removed. Twenty word
! would knock down the barrier of tn
I frontier. But the mischief that ha
: been done during this unlucky year wi
{ last for years after the present goyerI
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