Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-05-21
CANADA HUSTLES;
UNCLE SAM SLEEPS
One Striking Instance Where Oar
Northern Cousins Are Taking
The Lead.
A PIECE OF GOOD DIPLOMACY.
Dominion Is Spending Large Sans 70
Get Industrious Agricultural Emf.
grants-How We Help,
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
T ONDoN May l0.--For the first
time on record the emigration
from the United Kingdom TO Can.
ada bids fair this year to exceed
that TO the United States, Last year,
according TO w. q. r. Preston, tho
Canadian commissioner Of emigration
here, $1,000 emlgrated from this coun-
try TO Canada, while to the United
States there went $1,000. Thus far this
year the number Of emIgrants who
have left these shores for Canada are
in excess Of those for a like period last
year. and during the summer months
It Is expected that the ratio Of Increase
will be much greater, Canadian officials
in London are sanguine that when the
year closes Canada win be shown lead
ing the United states IN the number OF
British emgrunts received,
CANADAs POLICY.
While Uncle sam does nothing 10 at
tract emigrlnts from this country Cam
ada is hustling 20 yet them and meet
lrg with such success that other colo
MES of the empire have been moved to
envy and are bcstirring themselves to
follow her example ana copy her meth
DDS
England said Mr.. Preston to tho
writer Us the only European country
possessing colonies that deyotes neither
EFFORTS nor money TO encouraging emil
grafton to them. What England
won't do for us Canada ls doing for
herself, ana when Il IL remembered
that four years ago we received only
about 1000 emigrants from the United
Kingdom we feel that she is not doing
II badly either
IT costs something. OF course. but IL
Is the best paying Investment that Can
ada ever made, Last year we expended
S5lO,O 600 I'm working up emigration from
THIS country 10 Canada. We distributed
100000 pamphlets. kept "A lot of agents
on the jump and spent a pile Of money
In Advertising But not a dollar went In
the shape Of passage money We are
not sending any dead heads 10 Canada.
FITNESS COMES FIRST.
A steamship agency. being Interested
only In pocketing the emigrants' fares
goes In for numbers regardless Of quail
ity but AS a department Of the Cana
dian government we have to consider
the fitness of the prospective emlgrants
first. II We sent out a lot Of shirkers
and oilers we should soon lose over
our Jobs No man ever receives any en-.
coutagement from this Office to 70 to
Canada who does not seem to have the
right stun I'm HIM As regards quality
the emgrants now going 70 Canada
average far higher than those who seek
their fortunes In the United States,
over 81 per cent OF the arrivals I'm
canada last year were agriculturIsts,
whereas OF those who went TO America
only II per cent belonged to that class.
That tells the story We get very fow
emigrants from the undesirable ma
llonalities who are now swarming TO
America in such large numbers"
DIsREGARD&PI}44ssfF ~ ~ ~ Mfrs -'----
Mr.. Preston disregards all precedcnts
Whlch are supposed To regulate the con-
luct OF an Engllshman who attaius 10
me dignity OF an important official 20.
'ltion He allows himself only half am
lour instead of two hours for lunch.
W TN nearly a score Of clerks under
NM instead Of contenting hmerlR
win hosslng things from the secln.
iion OF his private office he talks freely
Win prospective emigrants and HELPS
Nlnnow the grain from the chaU
sharpe eyed breezy. en-.
'igetic and direct Of speech bo is n
rood type Of the Canadian hustler the
nan who gets there.
situated at Charing Cross I'm one Of
he broadcast thoroughfares OF London.
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