Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-14

copyrighted by Frank q. Carpenter)
NTINNlpEG.-The Canadian
\N/ government is after the
w American farmer. II consid-
ers him the best OF all men
10 develop and build up country, and
1t has inaugurated an immigration
campaign bigger than any ever back
ed by any government. and IL Is nov
working the United States Just as q
wholesale dealer works his territory. It
has our country divided up into Ills.
tricts, and there are immigration agents
at every center with Instructions to
drum the neighborhood Cor pioneer
farmers. In this II is aided by the rail-
roads and real estate agents The lat
Ter have mapped out the territory, Just
RS book publishing firm lays out the
field which 1t expects 10 sell, and land
agents, like book agents, are moving
from farm to farm, and getting auh-
scribers 10 settle upon the lands and
pay by installments.
SOME GOVERNMENT IMMIGRA-
TON METHODS.
The magnitude OF this work II ex-
fraordinary. During The past year the
Canadian government has published
advertisements IN 1900 American news
papers. and It has distributed more
than 100000 maps and boom docu-
ments. The interior department has
sent out carloads Of books IN colors.
forthcoming the relations between the
United States and the Dominion, These
tell the story al a glance. and, as Boss
Tweed said about Tom Nasts pictures
of him, any one can read them. one
shows Uncle Sam and John Bull carry
ing great bags OF money into Canada;
another presents Uncle Sam leaning
over the international boundary fence
and watching the trains of canvas-coV-
cred wagons In which his subjects are
moving across these British prairles.
while third pictures Canada crowd
ing Uncle Sam out of the English mar
kets by feeding John Bull with a spoon.
The government issues one class Of
publications which are intended to
catch the American children as well as
the grown-ups. This consists Of geo
graphies. with first-class maps and
pages of text, describing 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 try
ing To work our preachers. The immi-
grafton agents have been writing to
The country parsons Of tho intel
States, pointing out the moral and 9TH
or advantages which prevail In the
wheat belt. and asking their co-opera-
ton in getting good immigrants, At
the Same time the farmers are being
worked by the personal testimonial
scheme. Some OF the publications con-
tain pages of letters, some IN type and
some In autograph. showing what indi-
yidual farmers, who have tried Canada
think Of H. Indeed. they are much like
our patent medicine almanacs or adj
vertisements, and show the effect of
this country upon the settler before
and after taking.
AMERICAN MILLIONS GOING TO
CANADA.
The results OF this work have been
enormous. | am told there are more
than 100000 Americans here now, and
that 0,000 more are expected this year.
Those who have already arrived have
brought In many million dollars worth
OF goods, stock and actual cash. so
mat IL lH n low estimate To put tneN
value TO the country at $500, 600 600 il
Is said that they would have been worth
two-thirds that amount to the country
had they come without cent, but they
have brought so much with them that
their personal possessions run into Che
hundreds of millions, Indeed IL makes
one think of the children of Israel, who
moved out OF the land of Egypt. taxi
ing with them jewels of silver and
Jewels of gold and ralment save that
the money taken into Canada by the
American immigrants belonged 70
themselves, while that of the lsraelites
was mostly borrowed from the Egyp-
tians
have before me the report Of the
minister of the Canadian interior de-
partment giving some items from the
Immigration agents ~ to just how
much money was brought I'm last year
from certain United States points. The
agent at Detroit says that he issued
cheap tickets to $500 Americans who
went 60 Canada to settle and that they
took with them I'm actual cash and
other effects about 81 100000, G. ],
Broughton, the Dominion agent at Chi
cago. says that l.l4O emigrants started
by him took along ninety-one carloads
Of goods, and that the settlers We're
mainly wcll-to-do. one man carried