Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-01
CANADA, ITS NEW GROWTH
some Of the Facts on Which Great Hopes
l Are Being Built
LAST WEST AND THE YOUNG FARMER
Attractions OHered by the Great
Northwest to the Youth Of tie
United states who are
Looking for Locations.
tFrom a stan correspondent.l

SfONTREAL Z. O.. June sO-(Special y
] TWO years ago twenty OF the leading
newspaper men Of Washington, D. c.,
made a tour of inspection of the irrigated
districts Of the west under the auspices
OF the land department of the Union Pa
cine railroad. The result of the visit of
these correspondents to the country west
Of the Missouri was far-reaching It gave
the repres entatives of the leading news
papers of America a first-hand knowledge
which has been of incaIculable benefit to
them IN their treatment of public ques-
tions and a large appreciation of the limit
less possibilities of the country lying west
of the Tooth meridian.
The Western Canadian immigration as
ISOLATION with headquarters at Minneapolis
conceived the idea of duplicating the trip
of the Washington correspondents OF two
years ago by a tour of the Canadian
northwest and mapped out a 9OOO-mile
trip, reaching from ocean to ocean almost
and touching nearly all the provinces in
cluded in the Dominion of Canada, to COM
mence at this metropolis of the dominion.
Montreal is a beautiful city. The his
torical past and the commercial present
are in daily contrast here, portents of
the coming greatness of this wonderful
country that is century behind the United
States In everything that makes the nation
great.
LAS the nineteenth century was the cen
tury OF the United States" says Sir Will
fred Daurier, the premier of the Do
minion of Canada, 80 we may expect the
twentieth century to be the century of
Canada"
1t sometimes pleases the Americans, the
polite appellauon given the residents of
The states to think of all Canada as slow,
alr altogether behind the times. but there
30 some things in Canada that the swift
Yankee can contemplate with envy, in
Montreal. The excellent street railway
system for example gives eight tickets for
25 cents, with universal transfers and sells
4 school children ten tickets for a quarter.
" The employees receive IS to 20 cents an hour
for ten hours work, so that the cheap
fares do not come altogether out of them.
Two Languages in Montreal.
That which impresses the visitor first In
Montreal is the line of cleavage between
the Frenchi Canadians and the English
speaking population. The French are in
the preponderapce and dominate the city
government. The French residential quar-
ter is separate End all over the city the
srublic signs are printed in English and
French. But the contrasts between the
residential sections are most marked. The
2 EnkllSn snow every eNlQenCe Oh Splenulu
advancement, the French, representative of
a past civilization. Whatever of thrift and
enterprise is displayed in this great gate
way to the Last West. and it may be seen
wherever you look. It is the result OF En-
glish. and American money and brains.
And yet the leading newspapers of Mon
treal are printed in the French language,
while the English Gazette and the Herald
I've on a circulation of possibly 10000 each.
Perhaps 1t suits the Yankee egotism to
picture the Canadians as Jealous of us,
They give us credit for being swift and
snarp, but they would not swap conditions
They look with amused scorn upon our
hurrying and scurrying. They will chase
the dollar as dogeedly. but not as fever
ishly and they will pause In their chase
TO take a little refreshment and little
recreation, by the way.
These people are building up their en-
pire substantially, rather than hastily. They
. are prohting by our mistakes, recognizing
that we have been the wonders OF th'
world, but they have sublime faith in golnl
us one better when 1t comes to carving ar
empire out OF the mighty west.
The province of Quebec will probably re
in4in French speaking. Three-fourths o.
its population is French and the rural ele
rnent from which Montreal and Quebec arr
recruited is distinctly and tenaciousl!
French in all It's walks and ways. Th
legislative assembly of the province, al
though both languages are allowed in II
N deliberations is conducted almost who'll,
'T In French. But IN the other provinces o
Canada the tendencies of modern bushes
are all operating toward the greater us
of English and west of Quebec 1t is prob
p le that another century will see thi
whole dominion as firmly committed to tn
English language as the United States
Hardly per cent OF the deliberations 4
the federal Parliament at ottawa are con
Quoted in French, although 1t is any mem
ber's privilege TO speak or to ask question
a in that language.
y Cling TO French Tongue.
In this city the other day Catholic pre-
late urged his French followers to stan
by their right to use the French tongu
and not TO allow 1t to be overshadowe
by the English. This is the part of tn
Dominion. next to Quebec where tn
French traditions are naturally stronges
and the only province where bi-linguf
schools are maintained at public cost
was assumed when Manitoba was set VI
IN 1870 that II would be a French prov
ince; the population at first was abol
equally divided. II anything, with moi
French than English people. But III