Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-03-02
FOR THE
END OF THE WAR
Then Take Advantage of the
Opportunities in Canada"
Contributed by w. J. White, OF the
Department of the Interior.
Ottawa, Canada.)

| strolled into a bank in one of the
| cities OF the west a short time ago and
the bank manager said after the
war, the Canadians should be pre-
pared for a great influx Of people.
The crops that the western Canadian
farms have produced in 1915, and the
wealth that the farmers have had
thrust upon them by the high price
Of grain, will make farm lands yalu-
able and farming remunerative. After
the war is over there will be thou
sands go to Canada to engage in agri-
culture and many other industries that
will certainly prove profitable. Condi-
lions will be wonderfully good. The
advertising that Canada has had dur
ing the last year or two by its magniti-
cent contribution of over $50 900 men
10 fight for the Empire, the wonderful
sums it has given to the Rec Cross
and Patriotic funds, the excellent
showing it made i'll subscribing over
double when only so millions Of dollars
was asked as a war loan, tho brav-
cry, courage and hardihood of the sol
diers who have fought the battles in
Flanders, it is just wonderful" and
my enthusiastic banker grew eloquent.
One might have thought he was a sub
sidized booster for Canada. But" he
said, they won't go until after the
war"
We'll, now, Mr.. -, why wait I'M
til after the war? If all you say be
true, and o have said nothing yet
of the wonderful bank clearings OF
Canada today, nothing of the fact that
the immense grain crop of Western
Canada this year has given to every
man, woman and child in that com
try, over three hundred dollars per
head, why wait until after the war?
After the war, under such conditions
as you have pictured (and which are
reaD land values will go up, prices
will increase. Advantage should be
taken of the low prices at which these
agricultural lands can be had today.
They have o increased any as yet,
and excellent farm lands can be had
l close to railways in old settlements,
: in excellent communities for from fit
: teen to thirty dollars per acre. The
:. climate is good and will be no better
5 after the war"
I What about CONSUMPTION, though?
Is there not a danger from conscrip-
ton, and should l advise any to go
G there now, would they not have to
face it? Then too, there is the report
that there is a heavy war tax on
3 lands"
f was surprised to learn that these
: old yarns, stories that l thought had
t been exploded long ago, were still do
g ing duty in many parts of the United
States, and that a gentleman of the
o wide learning of my friend, was in.
It clined to believe them.
9 "Conscription!" l said. with Can
u ada contributing 250,0 600 men voluntari
= ly enlisted, why CONSUMPTION? There
8 is no CONSUMPTION in Canada, and
: neither will there be. 1t is not need
a ed. In any case no legislation coul(
: be passed by the Dominion Parliamen'
70 which would impose military service
e upon people who are not citizens o
l. Canada, either by birth or naturaliza
ton. Settlers from the United State!
d could not become naturaliZed British
: subjects until they had resided il
u Canada continuously for three years.
l quoted from official documents.
SIN the first few months of the wa
| clearly stated that there would no
r be CONSUMPTION in Canada. 1 repea
l that statement today"
! And then as to taxes" l continued
/ | quoting again from official authority
! "Al1 taxes levied by the Federal Go,
| ernment take the indirect form of GU:
| toms excise and inland revenue d,
! ties. 1t is untrue that farmers ar
paying direct war-tax levies and n
! intending settler need hesitate t
come to Canada on this account.
| Official denials should convince yo
! that all apprehensions which hay
+ been making some would-be-settlel
| from the United States hesitate
make a change while the war last
are without foundation. With thes
| Observation-Disclosures cleared up, tt
present war conditions even hecon
an added inducement to settlement
any part of the provinces of westel
Canada, inasmuch as war prices al
! keen demands for all ann of far
products afford the farmer a speci
opportunity to make money"
was glad of the chance al
pleased to have him state that h
views had altogether changed.
| 1 could have continued, and told hi
/ of the fortunes that had been made
| the season of 1915, out OF farmin
wheat growing, oat growing, bari
growing, cattle raising, dairying al
mixed farming. l could have to
him of an Ottawa (Canada) syndica
that had a yield of 100 bushels
oats per acre from their farm at Wa
wright and from so acres of whe
field they threshed over 60 bushels p
acre. These yields while phenomen
were repeated in many portions
IL wpSfprn Canada II was jptaraSfinp