New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-05
FRENCH-CANADIAN EAODOo'
A STAMPEDE TO THE UNITED STALLS
CAUSED BY THE TARIFF.
EFFORTS TO INCREASE THE POPULATION null
LIuED-How THE CANADIAN FARMER


sale emigration of French Canadians to the M
states Its task has not been completed Leaui"e
rrcnch Canadian newspapers have sent out cohihs'i'
of inquiry on their account. while others can up
the Dominion Government to order an invesus"''
The exodus from Canada at large has reacneu l'e
proportions Between 1881 and 1871 the Doi'r, o
Government spent s3,OoooOO In procuring eoo
600 Immigrants from Europe. chiefly from the b'us n
Islands. The population in 1881 was 4,32o'ooo
The natural increase alone must have been Ia PEI
cent for tile decade, say 100000. Adding the ''''
migrants the population ought to have shown an III
crease of a million and half at the CELSIUS "
1891. Instead Of that the actual numerical ihcre"s.
was only half million, the total having risen iro"
4 1875 900 TO 1899. 600. so that million persoH
Canadian and Britishborn, vanished across he h's
during these ten years. The hemorrhagc from lreHu
Is scarcely wasting.
Mr.. Porters bulletins will soon give the ilumocr OIL
Canadian born people in the United States. but no
special notice Is taken OF the British born who nave
made Canada halfway house on their way 10 inc
States. They put down "a natives OF Britain al"
nothing Is said OF their sOjOurn In the Dominion Inc
American census therefore, does not tell the whole
story Of the drain upon Canada. prominent
Liberal IN a recent speech in Parliament estimated tha
there are in the United States to-day fewer than
two and a half million persons who have abandoned
Canada or been born OF parents who have done So
This is part OF the price Canada pays for eecline
to remain attached to England instead OF allyng her
self with the forces OF her confident.
French Canada. the Province OF Quebec. suhers
more than any of the English speaking Provinces.
The three maritime Provinces, Nova Scotia. New
Brunswick and Prince Edward Island show n lower
percentage of Increase They possess COAL iron lum
Der. gypsum and fish, with here and there stretches
of rich farming land like tho Annapolis Valley; never
theless the percentage OF increase In the population
from 1881 TO 1901 was only LII. Their aggregate
population In 1881 was s71.OO0 in 1891 II $751;
900. on the other hand, the percentage OF increase
in Quebec was 9.53. But In Quebec the natural e1-
panslon from births Is probably higher than In any
other part OF the world The Province receives few
immigrants from Europe. Now and then n family
comes from France or Belgium. and occasionally per
sons from Britain settle in the Eastern townships,
the Engish-speaking section. or In Montreal but
speaking roughly, the entire gain in French Canada
comes out OF her loins and year after year she
sends vast swarm OF her offspring to New England
Early marriages have always been encouraged. When
Colbert was Minister OF France and Talon Inendant OF
New France, an elaborate policy for promoting growth
OF population put In force Young girls. selected
by the bishop Of Normandy and In the rural districts
near Paris, were sent out wives for the colonss.
The nuns received them their arrival, and the set
Tiers and soldiers could pick and choose. The girls
We're In great demand In 1868 batch OF 100 arrived
or October :, and by the Goth all had been married
healthy used to laboring IN the fields md OF good
moral character The common notion that the rin-
raft Of Paris dumped into the colony Is mis-
taken one.
Louisiana may have received that class OF I'm
migrants but French Canada did not. The registers
OF the parish church Of our Lady OF Quebec. ia
cording the births In ard out OF wodlock. testify to
the singular purity OF the morals OF the people
That day. In 1870 his Most Christian Majesty Louis
XIV ordered his officers % pay 20 francs 4 every
young man who married by the time he was twenty.
and TO every girl who found husband at sweet SIX
teen Parents with ten children got pension Of
500 those with twelve one OF 100 francs BY the
same decree II ordained that the fathers OF large
families should be preferred for the minor public
Offices and that those who did not marry of their
sons and daughters ut the ages OF twenty ana sixteen
res pcctivey should be fined. There was many
Young couple whose Joint ages did not EXCEED thirty
Widows did not remain lnconsoablc long; Dollcf
de Casson In his chronicle OF Montreal tells OF ono
who welded a second husband while number one lay
dead in the house Families OF eight, ten and ni
teen children not uncommon then. nor are they
uncommon now. Mr. ounct. superintendent Of edn
cation for the Province the twenty fourth child Of
the same parents. few years ago all the family
save three living. The other day Mt the village
OF St Cuthbert in the County of Berthier which con
talns 200 inhabitants. ten couples celebrated their
them 5o7 descendants who accompanied them 10 the
norish church to return thanks. Mr. MERCER, lately
Premier OF the Province, encouraged large families
with free grants OF land The clergy encourage them
from political motives, that the French CANADIANS may
not be swamped by their Engshspeaking environ
mont Bnt laymcn and clergy agree that the great
problem I'm hand Is the exodus. This year inny fo'
600 French Canadians. or per cent OF the whole
population OF the province. have left for the United
States.
one OF the prime causes Of the stampcd' Is the Nc
Kinev tariff The Democrats say that the agricultural
schedule OF the Mckinley act enhances The cost OF far
products 10 the American consumer, because tho con
SINNER always pays the duty. That schedule ahe'ts
Canadian products. and Canadian products only Inc
Canadians may therefore he accepted as competent
witnesses on the question of price and one and all
Free Traders and Pro,cctionists Liberals and Tories
viii tell you that the duty is paid by the Canadian
proiuccrs The United States IS the only market he
has for his coarse wares, and II he wishes 10 sell theu
he mnst perorcc pay the customs toll at the frontier
This IS not theory but fact verified every day b.
the experience Of the Canadian farmer Canadian
wheat CATTLE butter and cheese 80 to Britain but foi
horses. barley sheep wool, leans, railroad ties, 20
,atoes eggs poultry fax, hay. vegetables, etc, the
sole market is the United States. and,
rs rule the price Obtained for those com
mobiles by the Canadian farmer Is the American
price less tho Mckinley duty and the freight charges
I say "as a rule because It sometimes happens that
there IS scarcity Of certain article In the states or
scarcity OF In Canada and In either OF course
the Canadian farmer count on getting an abnormal
figure But In ordinary seasons the price In ti'
markets Of Canada is determined by taking the price
in the States and deductng the Mckinley toll ana ile
freght-r.e.
II any Democrat doubts this let him step acros VI"
nc and the leaders OF the Liberal party Mr' Lauiier
and Sir Richard Cartwright, just ms stout Iarh lie
corners and Free Traders as himself will be happy TO
give him ocular proof The late Sir John Macdonald
a Tory used to Illustrate the matter by tnhng Ile
case Of n farmer who has n field OF barley on the
Canadian side of the boundary line and another on
,hc American side Such may be seen along the
frontier near Rouse's Point. where New-iorK s'dVc
abuts this Province. When the man carries uie c"p
from the American field to market ne gets the Amer
.a x.co Cor II but when he markets the yield from