The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-11-11
STOPS EXODUS TO CANADA
American Farmers Urged to Come
SOuth-Presiden of Southern
Commercial Secretaries As
ISOLATION Speaks

Milwaukee, Nov declaring
that the diversion of America emf
grafton into Canada back into the
United States, and the establishment
of a National Board of Health were
among the. paramount issues in the
platform of Progressive Nationalism,
and that the fertilization of the Pan
anna Canal was absolutely essential
to peaceful occupancy of the new
trade route of the world, M. B. Treze-
want, of New Orleans, President OF
the Southern Commercial Secretaries
Association, made profound. i'm
preston in an address on THE New
South" delivered before the conven-
ton of the Central Association OF
Commercial Executives here today.
'1n five years time" said Presi-
dent Irrelevant, ''the United States
has lost $4,000 of her best citizens
to Canada-residents principally, OF
this Central West, carrying with
them intelligence, experience and
money into foreign country, the
lure of which is but ephemeral, while
the vast untenanted acres Of the
United States are open to them. II
they must leave at all, let them 60,
not to an alien north, where the win
tiers are long and unproductive, and
the summer heat nearly as torrid as
at the equator, but to the South,
where land is cheap and soil is rich
and cultivable twelve months Of the
year; where the climate is eQuible
and the health Is equal to If not bet
ter than in any given section of the
United States
In this latter connection Mr.. Ire
zevant urged the establishment of a
National Board of Health. mo Sec
ton than the South has suffered more
and deserved it less, by the totally
false impressions of her health and
climate, due to lack of information"
he said. For that reason the South
will ask for a national supervision
of health, just as, five years ago, 1t
demanded and secured national con-
troll of quarantine. And what will
help the South will help every other
section of the Union. That the South
is healthy and desirable from an in
vestment and settlement standpoint
is demonstrated by the millions OF
dollars and thousands of settlers now
making their way thither. Louis
lana is striking example. Foreign
investment capital is not taxed in
that state, and today hundreds OF
thousands Of dollars are being pour.
ed into the Commonwealth from
Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michf-
gan and other sections, largely for
the most profitable of all investments
the reclamation of wet prairies.
These deep and hitherto unused soils
are now producing corn-the crop
of the orthwet-bearing 40 to 60
bushels to an acre on land that cost
from $25 to $75 per acre. Today the
nine cotton-growing states of the
South are producing more corn than
Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota
South Dakota, Kansas, Colorado and
Pennsylvania.
Those of the Northwest who are
sufficiently interested to know more
of this great work of reclamation
can find practical information at the
forthcoming United States Land and
Irrigation Congress, In Chicago, No
vember 10 to December L."
~ In speaking Of the fertilization of
the Panama Canal, he said the ad-
ministratiOn policy should be upheld
by every loyal American. "A few
weeks ago saw that great work for
the second time, and 1t would fire the
heart and imagination of any red
blooded American to observe the
vim. the determination, the intense
ly patriotic enthusiasm of the men on
the job--from highest to lowest. 1t
is silly twaddle to say that the Unit
ed States must build the canal and
then observe no means of preventing
it falling into alien or hostile hands.
Not only the patroism, but the cold
commercial sense of the nation de-
mands it, and that 1t will be done is
beyond question"
New Orleans, he said. is preparing
for the greatest demonstration OF
modern America in celebration of the
opening of the canal. "The World s
Panama Exposition will be held at
New Orleans, the logical point" he