Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-04-16
SECURE A FREE HOME IN THE
FERTILE WHEAT FIELDS OF
WESTERN CANADA.
70 the Editor:

Canadian Northwest has assumed
such proportions that organized eff
forts are now being made by inter-
ested persons and corporations TO
stem the tide. The efforts are being
initiated chiefly by railway and real
estate interests in the States from
which the bulk of the emigration
takes place. The movement of popu-
lation has taken from numerous
states thousands of persons whose
presence along railways in these
states made business for the trans
portation companies. The move
ment has also become so widely
known that it has prevented the set
Element of vacant lands along these
lines, parties who might have locat-
ed there, being attracted to the free
and more fertile lands of Canada.
The result of the movement has been
that the railway companies not only
see the acant lands along their
lines remain vacant, but they also
see hundreds of substantial farmers
who have helped provide business for
these railways move away and SO
cease their contributions. The
farmers have moved to Canada be-
cause they were convinced that ii
would be to their financial interest
to do so. In moving they have been
inconsiderate enough to place their
own financial interests before those
of the financial interests of the rail-
way corporations.
In addition TO the railway corpora
tions, real estate dealers are work.
ing to stem the flow of emigrants.
OF course every emigrant who goes
tc Canada means the loss of com.
missions on land deals by real es'
tate dealers. Now a person has but
to know what the interests are that
are trying to stop the flow to know
what motive is influencing their
course. The emigration means finan.
cial loss to railway corporations and
to real estate men. These interests
therefore are not directing their OPP
position efforts out of any love for
the departing emigrants or out OF
any high patriotic motives either
They are doing so purely from self.
ish interests. 1t is a matter of dol
lars and cents with them. They are
so patriotic, they are so consumed
by love for their fellow citizens that
they want to prevent these fellow
citizens going to Canada and getting
free farms of the best wheat land in
the world; and instead they want tc
make them stay on high priced farms
in the United States where they will
continue to pour money into the
pockets of these railways and rea'
estate men.
One of the methods employed By
these interests to stem the tide il
the distribution of matter to news.
papers, painting Canada in the dark
] est colors. These articles emanate
chiefly from a bureau in St. Louis
They are sent out at frequent inter
! walls for simultaneous publication. A
writer is employed at a high salary
to prepare the matter.
, Moreover, statements absolutely a.
! NdIldACt WlUh hC hdfC ldtCl,
been published broad cast. These ap
pear chiefly in what purport to b.
, letters from persons who are alleged
, to have gone to Canada and become
disguised with it. Only a few of sucl
have been published and they con
tain statements that are absurd il
their falsity. Whether the partie
whose names appear in connection
. with these letters have ever beef
in Canada and if so, their histor,
while there, is to be thorough,
looked into. The discovery of thei
motive, like the discovery of the mo
: tive of the interests who are en-
cheering the opposition, may prov
illumining. In the meantime, however
it may be pointed out that only a few
of such letters have appeared bu
since 1897 over $1,000 American set
: tiers have gone to the Canadian
e West. Can any reasonable persol
suppose for a moment that if Cana
d de was o~ne-quarter as bad as repre-
scented in these letters the $500
e Americans now there would remain
In the country; or, if the Canada.
g West had not proved the truth of al
that was claimed for it, the paper
+ Of every State in the American North
west would not be filed with letter
n saying SO? Imagine $4,000 aggressiv
Americans deceived and not maxim
short shift of their deceivers. TIL
fact is the $1,000 are we'll Statistic
and are encouraging their friends t
follow them.
Anyone who sees any of these di.
paraging letters should remembe
that 1t is railway and real estate ir
terests who have from purely selfis
IL reasons organized a campaign t
stem the flow to Canada. If Canad
IS were half as bad as represented Their
would be no need of such an organ
cation. The fact that such exists
G of itself a magnificent tribute t
It Canada. Finally it should not be fol
e gotten that the letters published ar
e brimful of falsehoods and that $500
d satisfied Americans in the Canada
o West constitute a living proof tina
3, such Is the case.
J. The Canadian Government Agen
IS whose lame appears in advertis,
ment elsewhere in this paper, is a,
thorized to give all information a
to rates, and available lands in Yves
. ern Canada.
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