Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-13
YANKEES IN CANADA
They Have Already Become a
Very Lively Factor.
OUT FOR THE GOODS
AND ARE FINDING PROFIT IN
THE GREAT NORTHWEST.
The Land is Rich and the Ha1vests
Are Abundant-American
Capital Invested.

| Written for The Evening Star by Cy Warman
That the dauntless American" should
| have hand in opening this northwest en-
| pire was evident from the moment the first
| joyful whoop of the homesteader echoed
| over the border.
The dominion government is being prais-
| ed by its friends and frowned upon by I'm
! Gle Sam for it's aggressive missionary work
! In the United States, but the minister Of
! the interior is not to be praised or blamed
| for all things that came to pass out here
in the open God put the goods" In the
| ground and put it in the soul of the Yam
kee to go after them. And he's going
| going with a cheerful optimism that In
| spires others to follow. So great is his
| speed that he picks up those who have
| been resting by the yside-sleeping, as
| 1t were, on the road to success-and car
ries them forward as waste paper and dead
! leaves are drawn In the wake of the linn
| tied.
| few mossgrown grumblers sit tight to
! the stones upon which they have been rest
| ing for a quarter of century, hitch their
| shoulders, smile knowingly and name the
| Yankee fool" A fool he is to these-a
| fool who would rush in where the old-time
native angel has feared to tread. And
When a rev years later tney see the an
kee there with the goods these same sheer
Ing, peSsimfstic, parasitic pullbacks make
doleful prophecy anent the Yankee 1nva-
sion.
However. this type Of Canadian. who Is
still being reinforced by the same sort of
Englishman, is rapidly disappearing, or Is
rather being lost in the excitement Incl
dent to the settling up of the west.
In the Van.
The new, younger generation are in the
running. They are not following, but lead
ing or fighting side by side, shoulder to
shoulder, with the Yankee for the con-
quest of the great northwest whose wealth
they wot of. and In whose future they
have faith. Yes the younger generation
and the Yankee seem to be working we'll
together, and yet I can't forget what I
marked at the luncheon given al the open
ing of the dominion exhibition at Winni-
peg. Mr. Clifford Sfton, minister of the
interior, and principal spei kar upon that
occasion, referred with pride to the thous-
ands of desirable Americans-and he seem
ed to count them among the best settlers
obtainable-who had settled lately in the
northwest {no applause) and expressed the
hope that the thousands might grow to
millions, or words to that effect
1 hushed my heart and hearkened, but
never the faintest hint of handicap for
the Yankee. Poor devil, I said softly,
meaning the Yankee, not the minister, who
seemed to have touched the wrong chord.
And>yet the Yankee scarcely deserves my
commiseration. He is doing fairly well,
under the circumstances 1t is only half a
dozen years since he first heard the call
of the Wild" and already he owns half the
land that has passed from the crown in
the Canadian northwest Half the large
land operators who are Canadians are men
whose lives have been spent and whose
fortunes have been built below the line.
The United States are full of Canadians
who have met with success. Just run over
In, ojt11 10
you have known and see how many you
have seen on the rocks. Personally, l fail
to recall single Canadian tramping or
begging Almost invariably he had the
last job in the shop. He seemed to have
happy faculty for finding himself.
The Dead Ones.
! have the greatest admiration for Can
adlans-the live ones. But when I sit writ
ing, sit now, In what Is erroneouslv
called the best hotel in Winnipeg-sit writ
Ing from noon till night, listening all the
while for the footstep of the bell boy who
should bring the card of a man who has
wired Of his coming-and then go down at
dinner time to find my box bulging full of
cards. notes and kilograms, l protest to
the chief clerk showing some spirit. And
when the chief clerk, who mas held his
Jop, m told in this same house for TWEEN
" years and will probably never have a
better one is almost insolent in his indif-
ference, damn the dead ones without stint
or stammer
Leave them where they belong. on the
rocks by the roadside; they can only re-
aaru, they can never prevent the devel-
oPneht or the great northwest
IL Is not In land alone that American
capital is being employed American money
moves half the grain handled at Winnipeg
In Chicago. ~ i
me Yankee is by no means unknown
m ~, .ne iofnoer business. At Rainy river in
%as s's sa ontario an American company
mas bought a million dollars worth If
crown timber, put up extensive factories
built the largest saw mill In the world
ana is to spend two million more American
dollars developing power at that nojnt TIE
Red Deer Lumber Company. one of the
largest IN the northwest, is dominated Inv
American money W
n "A M. minneapolis neal man is as much at home
III the winnipeg grain exchange as he
would be on his native heath
Aggressive Americans.
The largest elevator in the world is now
being built at Port Arthur Ontario bv an
American contractor. And what is true of
the Yankee In the northwest is true In On
tario, in Quebec. From the Atlantic to
the Pacific. from the 49th parallel to the
pole, wherever there is power going to
waste, timber rOtting, lands lying idle he
steps In and backs his judgment with his
money.
10 be sure, many of these aggressive
Americans are Canadian born, but they are
Yankees by years of training Shrewd
careful business men, they were first to
mark the awakening of their native land
and among the first to profit by the ex-
ceptional opportunities it afforded
And thousands there are in the middle
walks We. or life who are homesteading and
yet more buying lands upon which they
propose to make homes North of the
main line Of the Canadian Pacific there is
wide strip of territory settled almost en-
tirely by Americans On the LIST day of
July they gathered by hundreds at Regina
to help the Canadians celebrate Dominion
day, and on the Fourth came again by
thousands and together with the natives
who Joined as heartily as the Yankees had