Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-04-30
DAKOTA IS GOOD ENOUGH.
Canadian Immigration Agents
Now Operating in the Jim
River Valley.
Dakota Farmers Asked to 20 to
the Frost District to Raise
Wheat.
North Dakota has the Advantage
cs without the Drawbacks
of Canada.

CS "lCnOuC CnC DflWD0ckS
of Canada.
Canadian Emlssarics.
Canadian immigration agents are now
at work IN North Dakota, endeavorlng to
induce farmers to move to the Provinces.
Other agents have recently been in South
Dakota proselying for settlers, but with
poor success. One of these agents, who
registers as at the Commercial hotel as
r. Fl. Mair of Prince Albert, has been
making jamestown bis headquarters for
two weeks. Most of his time has been
devoted to neighboring counties, al.
though, while in jamestown, he is a
hanger on at places frequented by farm
ers and never misses an opportunity to
SOW the seeas of discomfort. He paints
the Provinces as a garden of eden, guar
antees that farmers can raise thirty
bushels of wheat per acre and makes
glittering promises, which occasionally
entrap the unsophisticated. These agents,
as The Alert understands, are sent out
by the Hudson Bay Real Estate & Loan
company, which has some arrangement
with the Canadian government, which
makes it a profitable work. This COM
pany, through its agents, offers to buy
the Dakota farmer tickets to Canada,
pay for transporting his effects, and give
hlm the money with which to lift chattel
encumbrances on his personal property.
To secure the company bill of sale of
the personal property is taken. After
the credulous farmer crosses the Cana
dian line, he is located on government
land, becomes subject of the queen and
mortgaged creature Of the company.
The appeal Of these Canadian "boom-
ers" is not made to our well.to-do, sub
stantial formers. For them it would
have no attractions. But there is class
vho,through extravagence and poor farm
ing, have become involved, and to whom
the bright picture of the "boomer" makes
strong appeal. This class would make
another failure in Canada. Going to
Canada would be like jumping from the
frying-pan into the fire.
Before giving credulous ear to the
plausible representations Of these
"boomefs", North Dakota farmers should
consider few facts. The cycle Of wet
years has returned and with it long
series of good crop years for the DakOtas.
The old prosperity of the early eighties
is coming back and is already in sight.
Dakota's resources are developing and
manufacturing enterprises promise IN the
future to prove a material factor IN our
prosperity. The adaptability of the state
for the sheep industry has been proved
and sheep have already started many q
farmer on the high road to prosperity.
Not for eight years has the prospect for
the state-for the farmer, the business
man aud the real estate man-been 90
encouraging. Thtse who have stuck to
Dakota through her years OF depression,
are now about to receive the reward for
their :alth. This is what the man who
removes now leaves behind him. He
abandons land that is increasing in value.
He gives up his American citizenship.
He secures his release from one loan
agent only to place himself more COM
pletely in the power of arother. He
Knows that frost destroyed the most
promising wheat crop Dakota has had in
eight years and yet he goes two or
three hundred miles further north to
raise "30 bushels every year." Dakota
has all the advantages of Canada, with.
out many Of her drawbacks. The man
who leaves North Dakota at this time
will make mistake. There are few
places in the United States that present
an allurlng prospect for settlers. but the
man who immigrates to Canada courts
disaster and deserves It.
If Canada is SO desirable a place for
North Dakotans why is it that Canadians
have been coming to North Dakota for
ten years past? Two tifths Of the resi-
dents of Stutsman county are Of Canadian
descent. If any Stutsman county farm
ers have listened to the Establishments Of
these paid enlissaries of the Provinces The
Alert would advise them to consult with
our Canadian settlers here at home and
learn the truth about Canada before TAX
ing step they ara sure to speedily
regret
Mrs. slauGhter's Trouble with the
w. g. +. u.
Editor Alert:-Public interest in the
w. G. T. U. sensation has not subslded
and en- Friday was still further aroused
by the publication in the Tribune of Mrs.
Slaughter's spirited appeal to the3state
convention.
The true inwardness of the action Of
the executive committee Of the state W..
G. T. U. in declaring vacant the two Off
ces to which Mrs. Slaughter was appoint