Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-29

 pect to do thereafter He is introduced
 to his neighbors and the glad hand : is passing out to him from every side. ] He is made aware from the first hour i that everybody is glad he has come, that they all want him to stay and that l they will all help him to succeed if possible
 For single instance of just how it A year ago-on Wednesday, April IT, 1912. to be exact,-a certain Farm CT Taylor arrived after a 5000 mile journey at the 160-acre farm he had agreed to buy near Strathmore. All berta. Thursday he spent looking it over; found the improvements all as agreed upon, the house and barn as described, fifty acres plowed and sown to wheat; tie fields fenced, the stock all ready fer him to drive home from neighaoring ranch. So he sign ed the formal papers. spent Friday and Saturday in setting up his furniture, driving home his stock, and starting his vegetable garden. Sunday he went to church and entered his kids in the Sunday school. Monday he be- gan selling milk and eggs. Five days after he first saw the farm it was beginning to return him revenue! And this on land which had never been touched by a blow nor felt the tread of a steer till it was taken up for him.
 
 Now this is all "business" of the shre~dest sort. There isn't any sent iment nor any philanthropy about it. The more land the railroad sells and gets paid for the more money it rakes in. The more farmers it gets to pro- ducing grain and stock along it's lines the more freight it will have to pay dividends with. It insists upon good farmers not because it cares a straw for any mans character or capacity, n hut n be sure of its money, and the only way is to sell it's lands to men who are capable of earning the money and honest enough to pay it over. To se- cure this sort, it has to offer some thing more than usually attractive.
 Hence the ready made farm"
 By no means all the people who go to Western Canada and take up these 1 farms are Americans. They come from all over Europe. Indeed. the very choicest class of inm igrants from the 1 old world now go to these Canadian 1 in our own Minnesota or Dakota. We i are thereby losing the cream of foreign 1 Canada is carefully l skimnaing it off fer her own dairy and 1 leaving us the skim milk. Thus we l of the United States are being hurt l from our own states of large numbers 1 of pushing farmers,-S0o, 00e in the last 1 fifteen years, as has previously been i also by the diversion l from own land of many thousand for 1 eign immigrants of the best type.
 Poor old Uncls Sam! He used to 1 think himself quite a go-ahead sort of | fellow, with a keen eye for the main l chance and a handy way of steering 1 things to his own advantage.
 Yet. now days, he reminds one more Of a rather shifIess critter, i sitting half asleep on his own back | porch and letting the birds and the neighbors' boys steal all his cherries right under his eyes.
 He only wakes up all over when some one comes in and begins to talk politics. And then he's too excited | over them 10 notice the losses he was -oo sleeply to see at other times. h. Iced, I'm inclined to think that some -imes the bad boys who want to steal i lis very choicest cherries actually hire lccOmplices to go in and talk politics with him. just so they can gobble the ,ruit unnoticed
 believe they have politics in the Dominion, too, but they seldom allow heir politics to interfere with their business, lip there Perhaps they real