Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15

copyright, 1905, by FRANK q. CarpenterD
7INNIPEG. April 12.-(special Cor
WI respondenCo Of The Bee)-The
Canadian government Is after the
NSffFEI American farmer. 1t considers
A@9 him the best Of all men to de-
Nt.op and build up country, and # lie
spending vast sums to get him. 1t has
Exaggerated an immigration campaign
bigger than ever backed by any govern
1nent, and II Is now working the United
states just as a wholesale dealer works his
territory. 1t has our country divided up
into districts, and there are Immigration
agents at every center with instructions
30 drum the neighborhood for pioneer
Farmers In this it IS aided By the rail-
roads and real estate agents. The latter
have mapped out the territory, just as a
book-publishing firm lays out the neld
which IL expects to sell, and land agents,
ike book agents, are moving from farm
to farm and getting subscribers to settle
upon the lands and pay by installments.
Government immigration Methods.
The magnitude Of this work is cxtraordi-
nary. During the past year the Canadian
government has published advertisements
In 1000 American newspapers, and It has
distributed more than 100000 maps and
boom documents The interior department
has sent out carloads of books in cOlors,
cartooning the relations between the
United States and the Dominion. These
tell the story at a glance and, as Boss
Tweed said about Tom Nast's pictures Of
him, any one can read them one shows
Uncle Sam and John Bull carrying great
bags Of money into Canada; another pre-
sents Uncle Sam leaning over the interna-
uonal boundary fence and watching the
trains OF canvas-covcred wagons in which
his subjects are moving across these Brit
ish prairies, while a third pictures Canada
crowding Uncle Sam out of the English
markets by feeding John Bull with a spoon.
The government Issues one class Of pubn-
cations which are intended to catch the
American children as well as the grown
ups. This consists of Biographies, with
first-class maps and pages Of text. descrlb-
ing the material resources and the great
possibilities Of the new Canada. These have
been sent to the American schools through
out our land and they are distributed by
the train load.
Indeed, the government is even trying to
work our preachers. The immigration
agents have been writing to the country
parsons Of the United States, pointing out
= the moral and other advantages which
prevail in the wheat belt and asking their
cooperation in getting good immigrants
worked by the personal testimonial scheme
Some Of the publications contain pages of
letters, some in type and some in auto
graph. showing what individual farmers
who have tried Canada think of it, In
deed, they are much like our patent medi-
! cine almanacs or advertisements and show
the effect OF this country upon the settler
''before and after taking"
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American Millions Going TO Canada.
The results Of this work have been enor-
nous. l am told there are more than 2OO.-
900 Americans here now and that $4,000
more are expected this year. Those who
have already arrived have brought in many
million dollars worth of goods, stock and
actual cash, so that 1t is low estimate to
put their value to the country at 100000
900. 1t is said that they would have b9sn
worth two-thirds that amount to the coun-
try had they come without cent, but
they have brought so much with them that
their personal possessions run into the
hundreds of millions Indeed it makes one
think Of the children OF Israel, who moved
out of the land of Egypt taking with them
Jewels of silver and jewels of gold and raj
ment. save that the money taken into Can
ada by the American immigrants belonged
TO themselves while that OF the Israelites
was mostly borrowed from the Egyptians.
have before me the report OF the min
ister of the Canadian Interior department
giving some items from the immigration
agents as TO just how much money was
brought in last year from certain United
States points. The agent at Detroit says
that he issued cheap tickets to 1900 Amer
leans who went TO Canada to settle, and
that they took with them in actual cash
and other effects about 100000. c. ].
Broughton the Dominion agent at Chicago,
says that 1140 emigrants started by him
took along ninety-one carloads Of goods
and that the settlers were mainly well to
do one man carried away S25O,OOO, four
had together $4,000 and one had 5000
BENJAMIN Davies, the Canadian agent at
Great Falls Mont. wrote that 1857 settlers
were sent by his agency TO Canada and
that they took with them goods and cash
to the amount OF $25OO,OOo and I'm addition
400 head OF cattle. The agent at Sault ste.
Marie says that he sent 724 people, with
eleven carloads OF stock and $4,000 in
cash while the agent at st. Paul states
that the average American farmer going
TO Canada takes with him a carload of
farm stock and implements and about
81. 5O0 IN cash. One American who passed
through 81. Paul enroute for Saskatchewan
had sss 900 in his inside pocket
The agent from Omaha sent 1850 emil
grants. and they had with them about
100000 worth OF stock and goods One
family from Kansas City carried away
500 900 and instances are common whore