Morris tribune., 1902-03-08

soldiers. 1t would be very hateful to us,
The Boer cannot tolerate anything Brit
r fsh. The union jack is the red rag faunt-
| ed before the untamable bull. The sight
of British regiment with it's flying col
ors rouses in him the worst passions of
his belligerent nature. Therefore he must
emigrate.
| Ibid you know that we had received
| overtures from Canada? Well, we have.
The Canadian government offers us free
! transportation for ourselves, families and
chattels, free farms for each head Of a
family and each son who Is twenty-one
years old and government money to assist
| US until we get a start 1t seems to me
| that our condition would be better there
| than here under a similar system. There
| it is all worked out Apparently the irri-
tations incident to the solution of such a
problem have been dissipated.
'tWe have also been invited to emigrate
to the United States. The inducement to
accept the invitation was an offer of a
free farm for each head Of family. It's
grand country don't know which
would be best for u.s. It is highly improb-
able that many Of the burghers will emf
CRATE to a foreign country. They will
prefer to remain here, where the battle
fields are atrewn with the corpses Of fa-
theirs, sons and brothers and their asso-
Citations are congenial.' a. ...,e.
would not be available as an addition
to the rapidly increasing cosmopolitan
ism Of the Canadian population. But
he will calm down as soon as active
fighting has ceased and turn his atten-
ton to the task Of building up a new
homestead. If the proposed plan Of
British assistance is accepted, the de-
partment is Of the opinion that the
Boer farmer would be as ready to
avail himself Of it in Canada as in
South Africa Acting on this hypothe-
sis an extra ordinary effort will be
made to induce him to take up land in
the Canadian northwest. A considera-
Bile eff1ux of Beers from South Africa
would reduce the disaffected popula-
ton there and transplant the fighting
burghers to a land where they would
soon learn the arts of peace. This ex-
plains the readiness of the British
colonial Office to act in concert with
oAization scheme.
Nearly 10000 free homesteads Of
100 acres each were allotted to Cana
dian farmers and their sons, repatriat-
ed Canadians from the United States
and foreigners last year. Hundreds of
thousands of acres of rich arabic
lands remain for those yet to come.
In those vast remote sections the Boer
would be almost entirely cut off from
British associations. IL not surround
ed by Scandinavians or Doukhobors,
Galicians, Roumanians or other of the
thirty odd nationalities which have
jstrayed into the Canadian northwest
within the past decade, his neighbors
would be Canadians whose loyalty to
Great Britain may not safely be i'm
pugned, yet who are a sympathetic
and friendly people, quite averse to
the cultivation of prejudices and de-
sirous Of cementing the varied ele-
ments Of the population into one har.
monious whole. II he could endure
the climate, the Boer ought to find a
happy refuge on this side of the
ocean"
If the public men of Canada succeed
in attracting to the Donlnion any con.
siderable number of Beers 1t must not
be regarded as an act OF charity or dis
approval of British treatment Of the i
burghers. 1t will be nlatter of
straight business. The Boef would
assimilate much more readily with the |
British Canadian than will the hordes
of European refugees with unpro-I