The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-01-02
Current Comment
Superior Canadian Immigrants.

The annual reports of our commission
er general Of immigration are usually
| OF somewhat disquieting nature. be-
cause they present the need Of closer
system Of regulation and restriction Of
alien arrivals but the years come and
60 and nothing is done about it. Yet
the problem is hardly one impossible
OF solution. The British colonies OF Can
ada Australia and South Africa ara
getting a much higher class of immi.
grants than we are This is not the
Jesuit OF social gravitaton or natural
attraction. We have a county equal TO
the best, with unsurpassed opportunities
!or the laborer and for the small cap
italist, but evidently we do rot take
the same pains as our competitors to
present these facts TO those in Europe
who are looking for new homes.
This Wow Of the case il strongly pre-
sented by William +. Carson. an Amer
lean writer aud traveller. who has re.
Gently arrived in New York after i'm.
yestigating emigration conditions in Eu-
rope. he tells US that the United States
have no commercial agencies in Great
Britain, Germany, Holland, Sweden Nor
way or Denmark, while the British col
onies have and are flooding those coun.
tries with literature, pictures and speci-
mems OF their agricultural and mineral
products An intending emigrant goc.
into an American railway office there.
seeking information and is referred To
a folder and then the interest ia him
ceases. At a Canadian agency he is
taken By the hand made welcome and
becomes an enthusiast before he takes
his leave
In other words the countries furnish
ing the most desirable class Of immi.
grants are being seiulousIv worked la
our northern neighbor. We have our
agents az ports Of departure to do
certain amount Of sitting, hut do not
Try to exert an influence upon a class
that would be distinct addition to
our citizenship. Mr.. Carson rode on
bandwagon through certain parts OF
England which stopped at ali the vii
lagos and distributed pamphlets head
ed: Canada is Gods country: come
and live with u.s. He crossed in one
Of the ships Of the Allan line which
carried fifteen hundred well-to-do i'm.
migrants from Scandinavia. Germany
and Great Britain, aud on their arrival
at the winter port of ST. John n. b.,
there were officials to look after them.
see that they took the right trains aud
had good food with pure milk for the
babies. Each small town along tho route
had its board OF trade with a publicity
bureau. working 70 get as many OF the
settlers as possible. and
across the railroad at Winnipeg was
stretched big banner with the in
scription why live ii the desert 81
Montana when YOU can live in the midst
~ civilization and plenty in Canadag1
Probably it is not desirable to draw
The lines as rigidly IN this country as
S being done in Canada vet it is inn
possible not Go envy the Dominion the
superior class OF foreign increment that
she is receiving, We have the same
light and responsibility TO protect our
,elves against undesirable social and in
iustrial leayen that she has and the task
d assimilation would be much easier
rere we 70 assert this right and recog-
lize this responsibility to greater ex-
ent than we are now doing Boston
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