The National tribune., 1906-06-28
WHY GO To CANaDAp
The South Thousnndfold Preferable as
n Home.


The South a Thousnndfold Preferable as
Home.
Editor National Tribune: Owing to
the fact that thousands of our best
American farmers. through the aliur-
Ing advertisements OF few spectators,
are moving over the line into Canada
every year, would 1t not be in order to
make some investigation along this line
and learn who Is really to blame for
this almost wholesale exodus? Is II
because the real advantages to be found
on Canadian soil and under British rule
are SO much better than can be found
in the United States. or Is it because we
have failed to show these people that
we have the best climate, best soil. best
opportunities and the best Government
on earth?
The writer Is a native of the good old
State of Ohio, and has been a citizen
of the West and the Northwest for more
than IS years, and speaks from per-
sonaf knowledge in saying that Canada
Is greatly exaggerated in more ways
than one. 1t is not so much what is
said In regard to Canada that produces
favorable Impressions on people in
duced to go there. as that which Is
carefully and skillfully left unsaid.
Such insignificant features as long and
bittery-cold Winters with the ther-
weeks at time. short and intensely
not Summers. with more mosquitoes
than could even be imagined at Calves
ton, Tex. and the impossibility of work
I ing in Winter, which necessarily causes
great over-exertion through the three
or four short months of Summer, are
not considered necessary information to
the would-be settler
Were we to suppose even for a mo-
ment that the soil and climate of Can
ada was equal to that of the United
states (Which 1t is not, by any means),
even then 1t does seem to me that IL
would require considerable gall to ask
freeborn American citizen, a king in
his own right in his own country, to
come and live under be subservient to
and pay for the support of the same
power and rule which his forefathers
Fought to finish that he might be a
free man; and 1t also looks as though
IL would require considerable gall on
the part of any truly genuine American
TO accept such a proposition.
The press throughout the South has
Deen very energetic in trying to impress
the people living on the high-priced
lands of the Central and Northern
states with the agricultural mining.
manufacturing and commercial possi-
biiities of the South, but with ONLY a
limited degree of success.
Of late. however. the press of the
North and West has in a manner taken
up many of the good features which
undoubtedly exist in the South with
the result that all the Southern States
are on the eve of experiencing the great
upbuiiding that has obtained for years
IN the West. The South with all her
rich and inexhaustible resources. has
patiently awaited the turning of the
tiae' and the fruition of long-cherished
hope is at hand.
Many of the sturdy Western pioneers
with their years of strenuous experi-
ence on the bleak and treeless wind
swept plains are turning their faces to-
ward the Sunny Southland with her
great forests. noble streams, splendid
harbors and fertile soil There they
VIII build homes such as can be found
in no other land or cline
They never knew until recently that
the miidest, most eQuable climate in the
world is to be found in the South-that
not wind never blows to ruin their
corn fields and grain, that 1t is not
nearly so hot in the South In Mid
summer as 1t is in Minnesota or Michf-
gan. and that the country is filed with
magnificent springs of pure, freestone
water
They did not heretofore know that
the death rate as given by statistics.
even as far South as south Georgia or
tallahassee, Fla, is far less from any
and all causes than any other section
or the United States or Canada, and
that st. Louis has had more cases of
yellow fever than Apalachicola. which.
oy the way never had a case of 1t or
anything that looked like one Neither
did they know that the fine grades of
cigar leaf tobacco, heretofore only OBJ
tainabie in the islands of Sumatra and
Cuba, costing an import duty of nearly
" per pound. could be and is now be-
ing successfully grown in the South,
ana that a single acre of land in this
tobacco will give more clear profit, sold
from the curing barn without packing.
than ~ acres of the best wheat land
west of the Mississippi River, or the
boasted lands of Canada. They did not
know until recently that the South was
full of advantages, and well supplied
with everything but people-the one |
thing necessary to bring out all its val |
liable resources and make it not only
the healthiest and most desirable, but |
the richest section in the United States |
They are now getting wise" to the fact
that the three big C's-CaIifornia, Colo
RADIO and Canada-are not the opI,
places on the maD
Men-men of brains-men full of en-
ergy and patriotism should surely feel a |
twinge of conscience. pang of remorse
When entertaining the thought that
thousands of Americans with their
families have been permitted, through
lack of intelligent Information. to drift
entirely out of the country of their ma
tvity, to seek homes in foreign land.
while the whole South was waiting and
longing for the aid of their skillful
to reward them 10 times
10-fold for their labor. On, the shame
of 1t. To homeseekers everywhere I
desire to say-don't pass up the South
for anywhere else on earth until you
fully investigate her ADVANTAGES
Hudson, cambridge, Ga.
The SD N. Y.