The Minneapolis journal., 1902-06-26
.sUN1TED STATES AND CANADA"

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.sUN1rED STATES AND CANADA
1sfactory Trade Relationships.
One OF the best papers of the conven-
| tion was read by T. N. Knappen, asso-
ciate editor OF J VT p q 0; Nail
neapolis, on "Reciprocity and Trade Re-
lations Between the United States ana
Canada" This was In part as follows:
| Commercial reciprocity with Canada has
| been an idle dream with our people long
enough. We have had enough congressional
resolutions; we want something done. the
concern OF the eastern manufacturers and
! jobbers for their growing trade with Canada
and the keen interest that has been aroused
| in the American west by the awakening OF
the long dormant Canadian west unite to
| stir up national American interest IN Can
| ada. There has been marked revival OF
! interest in reciprocity We took a passing
| glance at Canada in 1882 when the Canadian
| Pacific reached the prairies and we took
another when It was completed in 1886. With
| the passing of the first boom we practically
| forgot about western Canada until i've years
ago. Then some OF our shreWd capitalists
| began to see the possibilities OF value IN the
| rich prairie lands, with the arabic. humid
| lands of the United States generally &C.
! cupied Since then we have felt an increasing
! interest in Canada. There are now dozens
| of Minnesota, Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska
| land companies, Arms and individuals opera
! ting IN the Canadian west and on scale
scarcely known before even IN such an ez=
| tensive country as the Canadian northwest
| Mr. Kenaston estimates that 10000 Canadian
| acres are sold daily in Minneapolis and St
| Paul These companies have mainly for
their object the selling Of lands to American
settlers. The Canadian or old-eountry set
| tier prefers to take homestead. Many of
| the Americans are reluctant to take home
steads, because that means abandonment Of
| allegiance to the republic, and even II they
| have no scruples of that kind they will not
| buy because 160 acres is not enough for
| them Reinforcing this stimulus to ernigra-
tion from the United States to Canada Is the
activity Of the Canadian government which
has numerous agents throughout the United
States for the purpose Of drumming UP immi-
! grafton. .,.' -
Americans IN the Movement.
It may seem unpatriotic for an American
| to advocate the settlement Of Canada by
! Americans, but il that Is so what will you
| say of Mr.. Kenaston and other gentlemen
| who are hard abwork doing what merely talk
| about? Ever since. I began to study the
| great population movement, now only be-
i ginntg,4 i have seen In it. the beginning OF
| great things. In 1898 9,11s Americans crossed
| In 1901, about IS, 900 Americans entered vest
! ern Canada alone out Of a total immigration
| Of 1900. Four years before only forty nine
| Americans found homes there. This year 1t
is estimated by j. Obed Smith, dominion i'm
migration commissioner at Winnipeg, that out
| of a total immigration into western Canada
Of So 900, the United States contributes 80, 900.
So already Americans are in the majority in
| this movement. It could not well be other
| wise Our people have been taking up land
| and moving on for SO long that they can't
| stop now when they have spread over the
| whole surface of the United States humid
| region. J.. Il
| said awhile ago to a patriotic, born
| and-bred Canadian: t'What will it mean to
| western Canada, when, AS we soon shall, we
begin to pour good Americans into Canada at
the rete Of 100000 year, as we have so
long been pouring them into the American
northwest?'' .. ..
ut means be answered, with great de1tb-
Grafton, the -Americanization Of western
Canada .. ~. .E.sE X
! AT the rate OF 200, 900 q year there will go
into western Canada every two years as
many Americans as the total number OF
4 Canadians now living in Manitoba and the
northwest territories, or nearly as many peo-
pie as were added to the population OF the
whole dominion in the decade 1391-1901 :
Sir John Mcdonald built the Canadian Pa
cthc railway partly to prevent the American
ization of western Canada which was pre-
dicted by senate committee in 1859 in rec
ornmending the construction Of the Northern
Pacific railway, as a consequence Of a north
ern line. To save Canadas west he gave the
Canadian Pacific assistance in the form OF
a vastaland grant, some 40, G0O, 900 acres be-
lieve. It Is that kind Of land Through the
company or it's assigns that American set
tiers are now buying, it is tkat land devoted
to the preservation Of Canada that now at
tracts Americans. Thus some future histor-
ian may record that the lands that were
given to keep the Canadian west from thu
E;Amerieans brought it ITO them. -. :
Bright Trade Prespect.. Il.
; But while the reciprocity question may
, eventually be settled in this way the presen
) interest of this great rnigration for US j:
5 that these people will retain a fondness 70!
American goods, that up there IN the Can
adian northwest there will soon be hundred.
Of thousands of people who would rathe,
trade with US for sentimental reasons, be
cause they are our own people, than witt
England. It is well-known that the Ameri
can settlers in Canada willingly pay some
=, what more for american than for Canadian
' or English goods. .
Already western Canada has begun to MAKE
! tremendous impression on the world g whea
. crop figures, and any development Of tha
kird Is certain to have the keenest interes
= Tor the people OF Mlnnesota, lhe nFsL OF IN
0 states in -four making and the first In whea
production. Our Gaillers and our elevate
t men are closely watching this growth, Las
I year Manitoba raised about as much whea
I as North Dakota and with the three terri
: tories Of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Assiniboi
$. produced 3, g., 2,000,0o0 bushels. The Mani
! toba wheat acreage will show an tncreas
this year of only $4,000 acres, but the ter
= ritories will double their acreage. II the yiel
a should average twenty-five bushels an acre
d as Hast year, western Canada should produc
! u, 100000 bushels Of wheat this year, which
getting up pretty close to an average Min
: nesota crop. But when this Is aecomplshe
a with less than 100000 acres think Of wha
: Is coming with many times that acreage