The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1903-04-16

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to place their own financial interests
before those Of the financial interests
Of the railway corporations.
In addition to the railway corpora
tons, real estate dealers are working
to stem the flow Of emigrants. OF
course every emlgrant who goes to
Canada means the loss Of commissions
on land deals by real estate 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 emigra'
ton means financial loss to railway
corporations and to real estate men.
These interests therefore are not d.
rectlng their opposition efforts out OF
any love for the departing emigrants
or out Of any high patriotic motives
either. They are doing SO purely from
selfish interests. 1t Is a matter Of dol
lars and cents with them. They are so
patriotic, they are 80 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 to make
them stay on high.priced farms In the
United States, where they will con-
tinue to pour money into the pockets
Of these railways and real estate men.
One Of the methods employed by
these interests to stem the tide Is the
distribution Of matter to newspapers,
painting Canada in the darkest colors.
. These articles emanate chiefly from q
Xbureau in St. Louis. They are sent
hut at frequent intervals for stimuli
taheous publication. A writer Is EN-
ployed at high salary to prepare the
matter.
Moreover, statements absolutely at
variance with the truth have lately
been published broadcast. These ap-
pear chiefly in what purport to be let
tiers from persons who are alleged to
have gone to Canada and become dis
gusted with 1t, Only a few Of such
have been published, and they contain
statements that are absurd in their
falsity. Whether the parties whose
names appear In connection with these
letters have ever been in Canada, and,
II so, their history while there, Is to
be thoroughly looked into. The dis.
covery Of their motive, like the dis.
covery Of the motive Of the interests
who are engineering the opposition,
may prove illumining. In the mean.
time, however, II may be pointed out
that only a few of such letters have
appeared, but since 1897 over $1,000
American settlers have gone to the
Canadian West. Can any reasonable
person suppose for moment that II
Canada was one-Quarter as bad as rep
resented In these letters the $1,000
Americas now there would remain in
the country; or, II the Canadian West
had not proved the truth of all that
was claimed for 1t, the papers Of every
state in the American Northwest
would not be filled with letters saying
so? Imagine $1,000 aggressive Amer.
leans deceived and not making short
shift Of their deceivers. The fact is
the $1,000 are well satisfied and are
encouraging their friends to follow
them.
Anyone who sees any Of these dis.
paraging letters should remember that
It Is railway and real estate interests
who have from purely selfish reasons
organized a campaign to stem the
flow to Canada. II Canada were half
AZ had az REPRESENTED there would be