The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-06-16
STOP MIGRATION OF
FARMERS TO BARREN CANADA

How shall the migration of 100000
American farmers to the barren wilds
of Canada be stopped?
Col. Andrew d. Davidson, known as
the father of American invasion, F"
says that more than that number of
American farmers and their families
will leave the United States this year
for the inhospitable climate of Canada
and British Columbia.
Is this not a serious thing to think
of? Is it not time for Americans who
ought to have good sense to step in and
show these misguided immigrants the
error of their ways; show them that
There is land that they can get at rea-
sonable cost south of the Mason and
Dixon line where they will not have
to struggle for an existence and where,
If they are Industrious, they can supply
their families with luxuries, instead of
the bare necessities of life obtained
only after the most severe struggle
and the hardest labor?
Just think of it. Last year, or from
January 1910 to January 1911, accord
ing to Hon. Frank oliver, minister of
the interior of Canada, 97,7O2 American
families migrated to. Canada and up
to March of this year this number
had been increased by 10000.
Here are 207,700 American families
all OF whom have to scratch for liv-
ing who might be living off the fat of
the land If they had come to the south
and worked with half of the energy
they have to use there.
Contrast the two places-Canada
and the south, and then ask why the
migration to the far north.
There is only one conclusion to be
reached. The Canadian opportunities
have been presented to the land hun
CRY farmers in glowing words by the
railroads and the government and the
land owners, while the south with its
superior advantages, has been allowed
to rest in obscurity, its light hidden
and it's possibilities unknown. To one
person who has learned the truth about
the south, hundred have heard of the
Canadian lands.
Is it not time to change this condi-
ton of affairs and lead the farmers
the American farmers, down into the
most favored land of the earth? The
Trucker & Farmer believes that it is
an dthat any plan that appears to of
fer solution of the advertising prob
lem of the south is welcome. For that
reason the plan of the Trucker &
Farmer, the south's most active agri-
cultural magazine, to tell the farmers
of the north just what there is in the
south and it real possibilities is one
that should be approved by everybody
who has the welfare of the country at
heart.
In August the Trucker & Farmer
win issue a southern land edition,
which, in reality win be book of sew
eral hundred pages. In this there will
be described by truthful persons the
lands and the opportunities of every
county in each of the southern states.
The information will be given by the
governors, the agricultural commits
sioners, the agents of the United
States farmers cooperative servie and
others whose words will carry the
weight of actuality with them. They
will therefore be convincing.
Every person who lives in the south
ought to see to it that one of these
copies gets into the hands of his or
her friends in the north. Some per-
sons are already ordering 100 copies
to send where they will do good. Some
are ordering only ten and some only
FIVE.
These copies are being offered at
exact cost of 25 cents each, and there
is scarcely a person but who can af-
ford on this occasion to order half a
! dozen. 1t is suggested therefore that
every reader of this paper send orders
: to the Trucker & Farmer at New Or.
: leans for as many copies as possible
| and at once. No orders can be filled
J after July Is, when the presses start
Help out the south by, sending, the
: southern land edition of the Trucker
J G. Farmer to your northern friends.
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