Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-03-12
AN ENGLISH GLOBE TR0TTEk
A Pacific Coast Paper Prints an
Interesting Interview with
Gordon r. Legg.
johnson Denies
the Fool Story Anent His
Salary.
This is to be Il Wet Year, Ac
cOrtling to IL Ft. TOttcn
Settler.
An English Globe TrOtte",

J. ". Connella, writing to the Seattle
Press-Times from Vancouver, B. C.,refers
as follows to a former we'll known James
town man:
Mr.. Gordon Tyson Legg is a typical
Englishnan of the cosmopolitan variety
resenting an English loan company.
exclusively. Previous to coming here, lS
months since, he lived a couple of years
in Australia.
Before going to the autipodes, for sew.
eral years he managed the bonanza
farms Of Richard Sykes, the great manu-
factuse.' ~ Manchester, England, in
North Dakota, where he owns about
100000 acres OF land. He has also repre-.
sented English interests IN other portions
Of the world, before coming to America,
SO it will be seen that his opportunities
for observat on nave been unsurpassed.
His opinion OF our north Pacific
country is therefore of interest and OF
value. He says that British Columbia
ard Washington will never experience
the complete business collapse which has
followed the booms in the prairie states,
in Manitoba aud California, because
first and foremost the leading industries
are not dependent upon the weather for
success.
Mines and timber are blighted neither
by the chilling frosts of winter, the
| parchlpg drouth of summer nor the
| floods of spring. Then, the shipping
facilities are such that the commerce of
the world will be forced in this direction,
| and wherever that goes, IL scatters in its
wake money, large percentage of which
is clear profit.
He says that in Vancouver, during the
temporary lull in the influx of foreign
capital seeking realty investments, some
| bus ness firms are hard pressed financial
ly, but this is entirely due to the un-
sound business policy of having drawn
money too freely from their business in
order to speculate iu town lots. This. OF
course, happens everywhere.
10 the query, what sort Of people
are you living among here. anyway?"
Mr.: Legg hesltated several moments and
replied:
You know every man judges Of his
fellow men from his own narrow, selfish
standpoint.
From my business point of view, I
would say the chief, most universal char
acteristic of the people of British Colum-
bla is their aversion to signing a mort
gage. They seem ashamed to do It. I
can't advertise my business. l can't use
stationery with my business card printed
on it, and you will notice that I haven't
even business sigr hung out.
Here is my name IN the city directory,
Gordon Tyson Legg. agent Ii pub
lished to the world my business I couldn't
get one Of the honest farmers up those
steps with derrick.
"They will scarcely let me make my
means of su. port visible. Several times
[ have written to clients and signed the
name OF my company, but the company
never gets reply; they are always di-
rected to me personally.
ut is not at all this way in Australia,
| and quite the contrary in Dakota. There
they seemed to be decidedly proud of the
fact that they had something to mort
gage"
Mr.. Lege says the politicians Of Can
| ada are tarred with indentically the same
stick as that used to b!acken their Amer
ican cousins across the line. Reciprocity
has resolved itself into purely political
issue, and he thinks the ordinary run of
| individuals arc not concerning them
selves about it, one way or another.
Partisans Oh both sides are beginning
| to get little red in the face and are
calling each other "anneXationlsts" and
| |retrogressionists. as terms of reproach,
while the word "loyalty' is in every
demagogue's mouth.