Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-15
PETERS TO THE EDITOR.
Why Americans Go to Canada.

MT. Editor: In relation to your edi- torlal of this morning, The Growth of Canada" l wonder ii many of your readers stopped for a moment to re- fleet upon the causes of that growth.
 From Boston every Thursday, 1 be- lieve, a special train runs to Edmon ton carrying emigrants. From Con- gressman A. F. Lever of South Caro- lima comes the complaint that Amer ican farmers are migrating to western Canada. All over the west the same cry is heard. So great, indeed, has been the exodus that a commission was sent from Speaker Clarks home state to inquire into the cause first hand.
 The Bulletin congratulates Canada on it's acquisition of American capital and American emigrants. Now isn't it evident that neither the capital nor the men would seek that particular To- eality without hope of betterment? :? And when, insted of returning, those who have gone induce others to go, and a general movement begins, isn't it proof that the hope has not been misplaced?
 On this day. when the merchants of eastern Connecticut are met to boom this section, would it not be wise to consider whether there might not be a simple, efficacious method of attract ing industries bushes, capital and workers to this end of the state, and to Norwich, without the necessity of a great campaign and a large outlay?
 The tariff building and sanitation laws, workmens compensation, the in creased cost of living, and the mini mum wage, when it comes, all will bear heavily on the manufacturers of New England. If the same cause which made for new growth should also be found to lead to reduced running ex- Chn n- imous support of even such con- serVative community as Norwich? From an advertising magazine, de- voted to leather interests, comes the following: Tn Edmonton, Alberta, 60,00O population. there was issued in 1912 fourteen and one half millions in building permits; in Vancouver, B. C.. 22,000 population, nineteen and one half millions; in Cleveland, O., 560,000 population, only eighteen million, and in Seattle, 250,0o0 population, only eight and one-half millions"
 The slightest scrutiny of these hg- ures shows there must be some reason for the astonishing difference. Any wiseacre will tell you the answer: Money and men flow where interest and wages. the return to capital and labor, are high. and where land Is cheap" And he would be right-hoW right, he seldom stops to think.
 
 investigate, they would find, as did the gentlemen from Missouri that in these parts Of western Canada which are increasing so rapidly the taxes on improvements and on business have been reduced, and the burden of taxa ton thrown upon the speculative land- holder For the same reason they would find many acres, formerly held | from use by the Canadian Pacific, to 1 furnish the land to hold any water in | it's stock, now owned by busy farmers, adding to instead of subtracting from 1 the worlds wealth.
 Land value taxation, laughed at as theory thirty years ago, is today a | fact, and Is carrying forward by leaps and bounds those places where 1t is praetieed,
 Into the far-reaehing effects of this | so simple 8 remedy I do net propose te enter but merely to call the atten- | tien of everyone who works, with his
 hands. his brain or his money, te what ether places have done by merely put
 ting all taxes on the value of land
 alone. And, bear in mind, that farm