Evening journal., 1910-06-14
TUESDAY, JUNE IA. 1910
DELAWARE BETTER THAN EITHER.

DELAWARE BETTER THAN EITHER.
Il OR some years there has been what has
4 been called rush of Americans to the
Canadian northwest The Canadian govern
ment has been opening land to settlers and has
been booming Canada as an attractive place of
residence. Alert real estate men have been eN
plotting the advantages of the Canadian country.
AS consequence, many sturdy farmers in the
northwestern part of our country have sold their
possessions here and gone into Canada to take up
some of the cheap and fertile land Many of
these settlers have done well and earned COM
Portable fortunes.
There is another side to the story. The cen
sus reports show that many American farmers
who went across the line in response to the call
OF the boomer have returned to their former
homes. They found out that conditions were
not auring as the Canadian press agent and
boomer had painted
The returning ones declare that it will be
years, il ever, before the Canadian northwest
offer improvement over conditions below the
line. And there must be many disadvantages.
Canadas soil is no better than that in most parts
of this country. There is no valid reason why
Canada should be attractive as home for resi-
dents of the United States. The spirit Of FESTIVE
ness which comes to most men at some time,
when they feel they would like to seek their for
tunes in new field is probably responsible for
most of the movings into Canada.
The Canadian development has caused some
Southern statesmen to call attention TO the
South as a land of promise for settlers far more
alluring than anything in Canada. One of the
Southern Congressman speaking the other day
in the House pictured the Northern farmers as
swarming into Canada. each carrying ST 900 OF
real money. The Southerner eXhOrted them to
consider the much superior advantages that
await them in the Southern States He pointed
out that the winters long in the Dominion
and life is uncomfortable for man and beast Ag-
riculture must be restricted to wheat and the
hardest cereals and fruits. In the South, on the
other hand. every variety of crops and every form
of animal life thrives This speaker asserted
that the summer heat in the south is not so
Great as that in Canada He continued:
Our white farmers work in the fields
throughout the hottest weather with per
feet impunty Our mineral wealth IS
enormous and includes everything in the
mineral calendars. We are engaged ac-
lively in manufacturing especially cot
ton iron and steel and lumber. The
health of our people is excellent and we
court comparison in that respect with
Canada and any part of the union. Our
lands are cheap in every part of the
South because so plentiful Every va
riety of soil can be produced in the South.
Corn does we'll in every Southern
State. Perhaps the Southern crop that,
next to corn and wheat. would appeal
most to the Northern farmer is rice,
which IS handled in many respects the
same as wheat. Wheat can be grown on
two-thrds of our farms.
This may be true, but for some reason proba-
blv because of the social and political life in the
South, home-hunters and immigrants do not 60
to the South. And there seems TO be no imme-
date prospect of a change in the drift
There are many more things to be considered
in selecting a home than the mere opportunities
for earning money. Many are the Delawareans,
gone to distant places. who down in their hearts.
think there is no place like Delaware as a
home
The Canadian and the Southern boomers may
shout from now until the crack of doom, bu;
for the real thing settlers should come to
Delaware. Our advantages are manifold and an
intelligent and well-directed effort for the up
budiag of the state would bring desirable set
tiers here bv the score