Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-08-09

some years gradual but quite general
movement of agricultural producers from
the Manitoba side to the Dakota side of
the Canadian boundary line. These egsi-
cultural producers migrated many years
ago from Ottawa to Manitoba. They
are practical class OF men and are gem
orally in comfortable circumstances. !.
They have fermed season after season
on the British side of the line. alongside
their Dakota nei0hbors, and have pro-
duced abundant crops from that peer
less region of number one hard. Yet
they are moving across the Hne--tamily
by family, colony by colony, and making
new homes and opening new farms under
the Jurisdiction of the United States flag.
AS the soil on the Dakota side of the
boundary produces no better crops than
on the Manitoba side, there must be
some other cause. That there is cause
must be admitted. because men will not
exchange established conditions OF life
for conditions no better than those they
leave upon the old homesteads. These
Canadians have closely watched the re-
salts of labor among their Dakota neigh
bors. They have observed that their
Dakota neighbors are paid much higher
prices for the products of their farms
than are received by the farmers OF
Manitoba for the same GLASS of products,
In every way equal in quality. To secure
this additional compensation for their
toll they are moving within the jarisdic.
ton OF the better market. There can
be but one reason for the pecuniary ad-
vantage upon the Dakota side OF the line
and that is the advantage of protection
afforded the wheat growers OF the north
west by the United States government
under it's protective tariff laws. This
protection drives out foreign CONC etI.
tion. creates home market and makes
prices which induce the Manitoba farm
ers TO abandon flag and country to par.
ticipate in the benefits OF wise statu-
tory prov, sics 8. aa
This ia a circumstance which leads
eaaily to tneiq eiquestion-why do the poo,
| OF foreign lands seek relief from theiI
poverty under the skies OF the American
republlca They come principally as til
iers of the soil. Generally this GLASS is
not skilled in the speciaItles OF man
ufacture or the arts. The conditions in
their foreign homes are not conducive
to the development of expert labor. TO,
there expert labor commands next &c
pauper compensation. So their pro
duciag capabilities are inherently OF the
crudest kind, and under the dull au-
spices of poverty they can devolo.
nothing better, Still shey oom,
to America, armed with nothing
bnt strong hands, willing hearts
economical habits and the desire to pro
duoe something and reap the reward
OF honest toll, In their own eountrie
they can produoe-but the reward il
lacking. Here they can also produce
] and the reward follows. This is becals,
American laws take care OF American
labor--:hey protect American labor.
they make market for American label
they provide that foreign labor shall
stand back and give American labor 9
chance. These are the laws constructed
and maintained by the republican party
of the American republic. Under then
the unshtiied foreign immigrant thrivel
and in time becomes skilled, not onlyir
agricultural specialties, but In th,
specialtiss of manufacture and the arts
and even the sciences. He is ss good
man here as any other man. Oar laws
make him such. And does ono ever hea,
that these foreign soiismen return to tn,
father;and Yes; they 70 back in palac,
cars and gilded ship cablns-wherea.
they came to as In musty holds ani
crude railroad transportation contriY.
ances. They go back merely to visit
and one visit usually satisfies the yearn-
ing within them-they are then full,
Americanized. These are the thing
republican laws for the protection o
American labor do for the poverty
stricken immigrant who comes to as on
o: the free trade misery OF Europe.
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