The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-01-11

According to the figures Just issued by the Canadian immigra-
ton commissioners Office, 100000 settlers from the United States
entered western Canada between April / and October l of last year.
They probably carried with them an average of $1,000 each.
That means 5000, 100000 which is good for Canada, and which per-
haps makes Canada willing to build her old grandmother over across
the sea about $4,000 900 worth of battleships, says the Salt Lake
Telegram.
Canada is getting back what she has been losing this last 80
years by her sons and daughters going to the United States. For
80 years, up to three O four years ago, the enterprlslng young men
of Canada pulled out and came to the United States Then, after a
little while. they sent back for their sweethearts to come and join
them, until there were so many babies pulling at the apron strings
of their grandmas across the line that there was great talk of an
nexation. A great many of the best men of Canada favored It,
But when they pushed a railroad through to the west coast, and an
other farther north through the wheat lands, then the tide turned and
bese people of the United States went to Canada, and Canada sud
sa sy got chesty. 1t was that that made her citizens reject the reel
s,-SNMy treaty with the United States; it was that that caused the
remark of Champ Clark that after awhile we would annex
"a to so anger the Kanucks.
It won't last long, because while the lands r cheap over there
and in many seasons good for crops; still it is a good way north
and occasionally a crop freezes, and at best there is about seven
months of severe Winter up there. And the advantages which our
country still possesses over Canada are so manifold that nothing in
the world but the lure of cheap lands would induce our farmer boys
to go there. We can understand that through the old west where
families have grown up on a farm, no matter if it is a big farm, the
older children on reaching maturity, say. as they always do In all
countries, 1--WE will pull out There is not enough land here for
more than the younger ones" And SO they take the last years
crop in their vest pockets, go to Canada and buy some land and
some plows and some horses, and build themselves a cabin; and
the girls go with them, and all at once they are no longer American
citizens, but they IRE stiff necked Canadians, and begin to swear by
his majesty, the king.
It is a great loss to the United States. The factor of a couple
of hundred millions of dollars that goes away is serious, but it is
not half so serious as the fact that the boys and girls go with it, the
best boys and girls in the country; and it is a saddening thought
for an American to think of his countrymen going away and their
places being taken by the gentlemen from the Balkan States.
However, we will have to stand it, and, as we said above, it
will not last long, because the area of wheat lands is not boundless,
even in the Saskatchewan valley, and that is about the only crop
they can depend upon for profits. They will not raise apricots up
there, nor the best quality of grapes, nor pomegranates, nor oranges,
nor figs, nor lemons-although a goodmany of them will draw lemons
in the rattle. And when they begin to grow old, they will begin to
nurse the aches which the Winter induces the rheumatism to make,
and they will sigh for spot like San Diego, where the temperature
is the same every day in the year and where a man who has a com
potency needs nothing more than a fimsy house, a little furniture
and a hammock to lounge in, while the last of his days pass away
in PERPETUAL sunshine and his old bones can keep warm.