Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-01

French are not good pioneers; they are
gregarious and prefer the sociability OF
the factory cities OF the States to the
loneliness Of the northwestern frontier
Engiish-speaking Canadians are by no
means sure that their countrys liberality
In making French, equally with English,
the official language guaranteed in the
old treaties and reserved in the confedera-
tion was wise. A nation builds much more
rapidly under one language. Russia and
Austria have had experience with this.
Switzerland. however, with lts three Ian
guages shows no lack Of national feeling.
French and English Canada would have
been much closer together today in spirit
and in institutions II the British govern
ment had been less tolerant a century
ago of the wishes Of it's French subjects.
English-spealting Canadians profess to
feel absolutely certain that the rest of
Canada outside Of Quebec province is Sc
cure for the English tongue and that the
Dominion's center of future population
will be well to the west.
Millions for Canada.
when I predict that the Dominion of
| Canada will have 100000 people by the
end of the present century. as l do said
| d. w. Bole, member of Parliament from
/ Winnipeg, this morning, II am but apply
| ing the ratios of western results to eastern
| expectations which have characterized
| every movement OF the star OF empire in
its course. You remember in your own
| country when Daniel Webster objected to
expenditures for overland post roads to
| California because of the worthlessness of
the country to be traversed and the use
| lessness of opening up communication
with It. The heroic Pike, for whom your
famous Colorado peak is named, speaks in
his letters home of the Rocky mountains
as the natural barrier to human settle
| ment in that belt of North America. VIII
| you be surprised that l can remember
when Alexander Mackenzie, afterwards
premier, declared in 1869 that we had in
the west, speaking particularly of Mani
toba, 100000 acres awaiting the plow? To-
day we have already surveyed S60O0,oOO
! such acres and the great dominion has
not been half surveyed. With due allow
ance for bad lands, etc, IL is safe to say
| that Western Canada has 125, 900 acres
awaiting the plow instead of 100000"
'Ts there any likelihood that the Ameri-
cans now coming into western Canada will
repeat the experience of the Americans
who went into Texas and begin to agitate
for transfer of sovereignty?" 1 asked Mr..
Bole. '..''
/ COuntry's Institutions Liked.
Il hardly think So" he replied. They
like our government and while as a mat
ter of sentiment they would doubtless pre-
fer their own republican form they are not
here long before they find in our municipal
system and in our mounted police many
distinct advantages, 1t is thirty years since
the Northwest Mounted Police system was
established and during that time no serious
crime committed has not been run down
certainly not in the twenty-three years that
4 have lived in the west. This corps is a
IL terror to evil-doers The American settler
who takes his family 100 miles from the
frontier line feels absolutely safe. Wher
people get from a government what they
want, they are reasonably reconciled to Its
form.
1T is an economic movement that brings
the Americans over here in such large
numbers The boys of Nebraska, Iowa anC
the Dakotas hear their fathers tell wha
they paid for land a generation ago; thes'
fathers or grandfathers went into Iowa ant
Nebraska generation ago as pioneers ant
they have been made rich by their increase
in the land value; the boys want to do tht
same thing; they want the work of theii
years crowned with similar increase o.
fortune aside from that which directly ac
II crues as a reward of their husbandry. TIL,
4 Nebraska or Iowa farmer may have NOR
boys than he is able to provide farms fo
at home, land has become valuable. HI
learns that for the same money that a sin
gle farm costs at home he can buy farm
apiece for them in this Last West and 81
} he comes E. c. s.