The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-07-24

worried over the increasing exodus
OF American farmers to Western
Canada, and he doesn't know how
to stop it. In fact. he says in his
paper that there is no way to stop
their going;" so, of course, the only
thing for Americans to do is to SUBJ
Stltute sack-cloth for the common silk
underwear and ashes for the S35
Panama hats worn at this season.
In the Times-Star of May 27,
Brother Charlie breaks out in
mournful dirge over ''The Exodus of
American Farmers" giving some in
teresting figures:
Last week 1,845 American farm
ers, with $388,5OO cash and $145,-
600 in personal effects, crossed into
Western Canada with the purpose of
settling permanently on Canadian
lands. The total number from all
countries to pass through w innipeg
was 1000.
Of that emigration of nearly two
thousand American farmers to West
ern Canada, Brother Charlie" says,
Here is something to think about"
He does not say that he will think
about it, for he is not in the habit of
thinking, and wisely refrains from
promising to put into active opera
ton the machinery inside his head,
because, the buzzing may interfere
with business He says that emf
grafton of American farmers "can
not continue Indefinitely without it's
effects being felt at home"-an as
sertion that proves some slight move
ment of the machinery of his head
and he adds:
The type of American who is 60
ing to Canada is just the kind we
need at home. These men are like
the original pioneers, who had grit
and enterprise and resourcefulness,
and who preferred to take a chance
on finding something better else
where rather than to remain content
with half success at home
There is no way to stop their 60
ing. immigration follows a natural
law. Perhaps when American farm
ers learn more about intensive farm
ing, crop rotation, and fertilizing, and
when fertilizers become very cheap
and are available close to all mark
cts, we will hear less about WORKOUT
American farms and immigration.
The prospects for an immediate
decrease in the exodus, however, are
uOC SOOO lie
ent of the Canadian Pacific at Win
nipeg has been making a four weeks
tour of investigation in the United
States. He declares it to be his opin-
ion that the departures from this
country to Canadian lands will this
year eclipse all previous records
1t may be that a few of those
American farmers who exodusted to
Western Canada went from Ohio; but
very few if any. 1t must be remem-
bered that by no means all of the
Americans who go into Western
Canada go through Winnipeg. That
city is but one of several ports of
entry for Americans. Most of the
Americans going to Canada are from
Missouri Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas,
the Dakotas, Nebraska, Montana,
Iowa and Washington. But the sue
ton force will gradually extend to
Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.-S. F.
Star.
The big dailies are a long time
hesitating about giving expression to
the woeful exodus of the best class
of Americans into Canada and none
of them will tell the truth about it.
That our "well to do" farmers should
be fleeing from us is ominOus; it
shows that it is not his greatest de-
sire to better his material condi-
tions," then it must be his moral
conditions that he seeks to improve.
What else can it be? He is fleeing