El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-06
Take Millions To Canada
United States Has Sent 100000
Farmers Across Canadian
Line in Eight Years.
By Frederic J. HasINin--

? AsHINGTON, D. C., Jan. G.

ganda has resulted so successfully
that nearly one-third of its immigra-
ton comes from our country. We ere
sending Canada more coIOnists than II
IS getting from England and Wales tc-
gether. Our immigrants are exactly
the kind of people Canada is looking
Tor, since they are the best fitted in
the world for pioneering in the de-
Velopment Of agricultural and other
resources IN new territory. In less
than eight years the United States mas
sent nearly 10000 people acress the
line.
Advertise in Every State.
One needs only to consult Canada's
immigration authorities to see how
much they want Uncle Sans citizens
TO come into the dominion W. J.
White, the press agent of the propa-
ganda, says there is not a state in the
union in which Canada is not adver-
tised, the offices of the government
being located in the best agricultural
sections where easy communication
with the surrounding country may be
established. He tells how agents so
cut and meet the prospective settlers;
carry information to them and their
II end as to the soil, crops, and the
like; how they make the annual
rounds of the fall agricultural fairs
with exhibits; and how the general
work is done.
In addition to the salaried agents
the Canadian government employs a
large number of sub agents. who are
paid a bonus of three dollars per head
for every man, two dollars per head
for every woman, and one dollar per
head for every child, among the actual
settlers they secure. The farm per-
toGicals are used extensively in ad-
VertlSing the attractions of the 'laSt
best west and the country weekly s
also made use of. over 1000 newspS-
Der advertising contracts were signed
IN a single year.
Take Out SGO,OOO,OOO a Year.
The Canadian government is very
B %ed satisfied See5 scb,g with results that
it has not been considered advisable 10
make any changes in the method Ct
advertising; that the plan heretofore
pursued has increased the inflow #
settlers from the United States in nine
years from 1000 a year to 10000 a wear.
and that this is a showing with which
Canada may be satisfied. Many OF the
!mml grants dispose of their lands or
ether property before leaving for Can
ada, and the Canadian officials esti-
mate that they bring with them to
canada money and property amount
ing to 100000, 600 a year
1t IS probable that nowhere else in
the world is any considerable move
ment made up so largely of agFicuI-
tural people as the trek of Americans
10 Canada More than three fOurths of
the americans going have been en-
gaged in agriculture Of its allied in
duStrleS in the United States During
a period of eight years they took M
10000 homesteads in the western pro-
VlnceS They now constitute nearly
half of the farming population of these
provinces Thus is Canada getting from
US the very kind of people who trans
formed our middle western states
from boundless prafres into commu;ls-
ties which are the backbone of Ameri-
can can .agncuiture' the very Kind of peo-
pie IT would be most worth while for
the United states to keep. The Can
adlan immigration authorities admit ,
that they have had to fight heavy
competition along this line from immi-
grafton agents in Texas and other
western and southwestern states and
tnat the strongest consideration thev
nave to overcome in inducing emie-ra-
ton IS the reluctance of the people to
settle outside the United States.
Compete With Southwest.
For long while the railroads 10
Texas and other places in the United
states where settlers are wanted, gave
better rates for excursions of settlers
man those leading to Canada, but the
canadian government now has secured
rates Inat enable 1t TO compete with
the roads to the southwest In 10
ears canada spent approximately So
100000 in encouraging immigration
from the United States, this being al
most haf Of the total expenditures
for the entiIe immigration propaganda
IN all parts of the world.
II IS certain that no other country
labors so persistently to attract the
f9Sbt Kind OF people as Canada, and
II likewise Is certain that one of the
reasons our immigration from the
countries Of northern Europe has
fallen off is the success OF the Can
adlan immigration propaganda in those
!IeIuS. mus Canada not only recruit
ing half OF Its new farming popula-
ton from the United States itself but
II IS drawing the major portion of the
cther half from territory which used
10 De the especial immigrant furnish
ing preserves of the United States.
Many Canadians Here.
WhlIe the United States is losing its
farmer Iolk TO Canada in such large
numbers, Canada is losing its share Of
people to the United States ADDro,i
mately One-fifth of all the peopie horn
IN the dominion, reside in the United
states today. And where we are civ
ing Canada some $4,000 immigrantS a
year, IT is responding with a counter
tuITG T1lI, OF some $4,000 immigrants to
the united States. OF these, approxi-
mately one-half are native born
canadians, while the others are mature
allied Canadians. However. A reIa-
uVely small proportion of this immi-
Sratlon IS OF the same kind we are
sending to Canada. It takes our farm
ers and in return, gives US skilled and
unskilled labOrers.
a large proportion of the immigrants
coming from Canada to the United
States are French Canadians VINO
come to work in the mills of New Eng
land 1t thus happens that the tide
out of the United States goes largely
from the middle west, while the tide
into the United States comes into the
ftrtheast- While the Canadians who
como to the United States are, in the
main, a desirable immigration, it is
generally realized that the best imm:-
grant from an economic standpoint Is
the one who goes upon the land, and
therefore, that Canada gets the better
OF US IN the annual immigrant =
chanSe between Uncle sam and John
Canuck.
Canada Has Flexible Law.
The Canadian immigration law is
admirably adapted to the needs of a
new country which wants the best
class OF immigrants. It's flexibility IS
regarded as its best quality. For in
stance, anyone getting his way pail !
INFO the United States is shut out !
without question. In Canada, such
immigrants may be admitted upon the
approval of the Canadian immigration
in London.
canada knows thoroughly how to &C
coInpnsh a desired end without direct |
oIIence against any one. Some years /
ago Hindu immigration began to in |
crease and Canada thought best to 4
check the incoming tide quickly and |
completely But il was not willing TO 1