The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-12-28
C0NQuER!NG OF POVERTY
THE HOUGH PLAN TO he
GIVEN TRIAL IN
CANADA.

Chicago, Dec. 2S.-Bacliing has been
offered for the conquest of poverty,
now costing in futile charity in the
United States billion dollars a year.
in accordance with Emerson Hough's
plan of transplanting from the cities
the efficient unemployed, educating
them in the essentials of agriculture,
providing land and lending to them
at current rates of interest the money
necessary to reach the self-sustain-
ing point. Not only has a philan-
thropic Canadian capitalist and land
owner, William Pearson of Winnipeg.
slgntfied his decision to personally
aid the process of transplanting,
which Hough's book, "The Sewers" )"
has made a topic of discussion
throughout the Dominion, but Mr..
Pearson also is personally enlisting
the support of statesmen and philan-
thropists in the United States and
England as well as Canada of the
plan.
The proffer of this support, which
at once changes the matter from an
idea to an approaching fact, was
made in letter in which Mr.. Pearson
said: II am ready to say now that
] am glad to associate myself with
the movement and assist 1t financially
and otherwise in any way possible.
The plan outlined in the book pro-
vides for competent training for those
to be helped before setting them I'M
on their own steadings, Canada con-
tributing direction and superinten-
dence, as we'll as the field for the
To
rectly by the government or by the
government. assisted by private or
organized philanthropy. This makes
the matter one of individual, as we'll
as of national importance, and will
result in the near, future in an or
ganized effort to test out the plan
proposed for the conquest of poverty.
On best authority it is stated that
Mr.. Pearson has taken UP the execu-
t1on of the plan with the Sage foun-
dation, certain other philanthropies
in New York and philanthropists in
Chicago, and in England with LLOYD
George; Winston Churchill: Asquith:
Duke of Sutherland; Sir Robert Per-
kes; Charles Brightman, of Watford.
England; General Booth; John Burns,
Lord Strathcona and Lord North
cliffe.
The known interest and views held
by statesmen in England upon the
growing problem of the army of the
unemployed, which has totaled con-
tinuously in London $4,000 to 10000
during recent years, gives promise of
speedy response to the definite pro-
posal by Mr.. Pearson, the plan pre-
sented in THE Sewers" having been
given wide attention in the British
press.
The press comment shows how SER
lously this proposed remedy for the
growing poverty in cities is being
considered. In review of the book
DIR. S. E. Lang of the Manitoba nor
NAL school has written his endorse
ment of the project and refers to it
as an educational hook of value.
Briefly state, he says: "Mr. Hough's
proposal is that an educational ex-
pertinent on very large scale should
be attempted on the clap belt lands
controlled by the Canadian Northern
and Grand Trunk Pacific railways. He
proposes that steps should be taken
to provide training in agriculture for
that large class of immigrants who
come from the cities and towns Of
the old countries and who, owing to
the character Of their previous oc-
cupations, are more likely to fail in
Canada than to succeed"
Col. A. d. Davidson, known through
out Canada and the western states
as one Of the most successful land
operators in the world, and whom
Mr.. Hough calls "the re-discoverer of
western Canada" gives testimony in
THE Sowing" as to the type of man
needed in, and the type created by
tho conditions of the Ganedian u,ost