Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-03
HIGH TARIFF w ALLS
DO NOT RESTRICT TRAVEL BE-
TWEEN CANADA AND U. S.

There is something that high tariff walls
can't restrict said Mr.. George II. Ham.
a well-known Canadian from Montreal, to
Star man, land that is the volume
of travel of people between Canada
and the United States. 1t doesn't prevent
the exodus of Canadians to the states nor
the influx of Americans into Canada. You
have nearly two millions of Canadians in
your country and we have more than half
a million Americans in the dominion. About
oneLhalf of the 100000 Americans have
crossed over to Canada within the past
ten years and settled in the prairies of the
Canadian west. They are principally from
Minnesota, North Dakota, Washington,
Iowa, Montana Illinois, Wisconsin. Mchi-
gan and South Dakota-an western and
northwestern states, you will observe, al
though there are not few from the south.
And why do they come? Because they sell
out their farms at $30 $40 $50 or 500 an
acre, and buy virgin soil at from 50 to $2o
an acre. or get it free by homesteading.
They don't leave any deserted farms. This
year the number of Americans immigrant
ing to Canada will probably aggI egate over
10 900. They find practically the same con-
ditions existing in Canada as they were ac-
customed to, and as they are making money
hand over fist are satisfied with their new
homes.
1--WE have a large American tourist travel,
too, and during the heated term old Que
bee which is queer bit of middle-age Eu-
rope the maritime provinces, Muskoka,
Timiskamng and the mountain resorts in
the Canadian rockies are filed with people
from your larger cities. The latest
discovery of any Importance is the
Great Cave of the Selkirk range, whose
recesses have not yet been fully explored,
but of which sufficient is known to rank it
among the mammoth caverns of the, world.
In it are huge vaulted chambers, pie
turesque galleries, wonderful passages and
immense water courses, which, scientists
declare, have been 10000 years at work
wearing away the rock and forming this
cave The Canadian government is bridg
ing the streams and chasms erecting guard
rails at the steep declvitieS to insure per-
feet safety to explorers, and road will be
constructed to fhe mouth of the cave where
a shelter or rest is to be built when the
snow melts.
Winter Resort for Americans
"III tell you something that may sur
prise you. Canada is becoming quite a
winter resort for Americans. Not few of
them are from the south. l suppose you
will think that man who goes north in
the winter time is crazy as a person
who would go south to spend the summer,
but our clear, cold winters are delightfully."-
invigorating and the visitors exult in
the pleasures of sleigh-driying, skating,
snow-shoeing, skiing and tobogganing,
while they thoroughly enter into the sport
and excitement of a hockey match played
on the ice.
Cold? Cold nothing. If you ever expe-
rience q glorious bright sunshiny winters
day in Canada you would say 1t vas a
tonic, champagne cocktail, an invigorat-
fngs dose OF ozone which once tasted would
give appetite for more. he thermometricai
readings don't mean the same in dry
climate as they do in a damp one We Ca
nadians greatly enjoy our winters, and from
the number of Americans who come over
and spend a couple of days or weeks GER
tainly find them delightful or they wouldn't
come. The trouble this winter is that
the weather has been altogether too mild to
suit US, and 1t has not only interfered with
numbering operations, but has spoiled the
outings that a club of wealthy Americans
arrange for every January through our for
ests.
There is no noticeable clamor in Canada
for reciprocity with the United States. You
know we tried hard for years to secure
reciprocity treaty with you, but always
failed; so our trade with you is gradually
growing without one-Canadians seem con-
tent TO leave things as they are