Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
WAITING FOR THE
END OF THE WAR
s'Then Take Advantage of the
Opportunities in Canada"
Contributed by W. J. White, of the
Department of the Interior,
Ottawa, Canada)

Ottawa, Canada)
| strolled into a bank in one of the
cities of the west 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 valu-
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
tions will be wonderfully good. The
advertising that Canada has had dur
ing the last year or two by it's magnifi-
cent contribution Of over 250,000 men
to fight for the Empire, the wonderful
sums it has given to the Red Cross
and Patriotic funds, the excellent
showing it made in subscribing over
double when only so millions of dollars
was asked as war loan, the 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 sub
sidized booster for Canada. Put" he
said they won't go until after the
war;
We'll, now, Mr.. -, why wait IN
til after the war? If all you say be
true, and, you 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 coun-
try, over three hundred, dollars per
head, why wait until after the war?
| After the war, under such conditions
as you have pictured tand which are
real land values will go up, prices
will increase. Advantage should be
taken of the low prices at which these
agricultural lands can be hae today.
They have not increased any as yet.
and excellent farm lands can be had
close to railways in old settlements.
in excellent communities for from fif-
teen to thirty dollars per acre The
climate is good and will be no better
after the war"
What about conscription, though !!
is there not danger from conscrip
ton. and should | advise any to &c
there now, would they not have to
face it? Then too, there is the report
that there is heavy war tax on
lands.''
I was surprised to learn that these
old yarns, stories that l thought hat
been exploded long ago. were still do
ing duty in many parts of the United
States, and that gentleman of the
wide learning of ny friend. was in
clined to believe them.
"Conscription! l said With Can
ada contributing 900 men voIuntari
ly enlisted, why conscription? Their
is no ccnscription in Canada, ant
neither will there be. 1t is not need
ed in any case no legislation coul,
: be passed by the Dominion Parliamen
which would impose military servic
t upon people who are not citizens O
| Canada, either by birth or naturaliza
/ ton. Settlers from the United State
t could not become naturalized British
subjects until they had resided il
| Canada continuously lor three years.
. | quoted from official documents.
: In the first few months of the wa
| clearly stated that there would nc
t be conscription in Canada. | repea
" that statement today"
And then as to taxes" | continued
quoting again from official authorit,
"An taxes levied by the Federal Co
: ernment take the indirect form of GU
uoms excise and inland revenue dl
ties. 1t is untrue that farmers al
= paying direct war-tax ievies and n
intending settler need hesitate
;. eome 70 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 change while the war last
y are without foundation. With thes
misunderstanding cleared up, tt
u present war conditions even becon
1t an added inducement to settlement
( any part of the provinces of wester
Canada, inasmuch as war prices al
+ keen demands for all manner of far
! of hn for a
opportunity to make money"
was glad of the chance al
n pleased TO have him state that h
# views had altogether changed.
e l could have continued, and told hi
s. of the fortunes that had been made
g the season Of 1915, out of farmin
wheat growing, oat growing. barlt
1t growing, cattle raising, dairying al
IS mixed farming. | could have to
ID him of an Ottawa (Canada) syndica
s that had a yield of 130 bushels
e oats per acre from their farm at Wal
,s wright and from so acres of whe
id field they threshe6 over so bushels p
acre. These yields while phenomen;
IF were repeated in many portions
t. western Canada 1t was interesting
u inform him that the average yield
m spring wheat in Saskatchewan w
re 2516 bushels per acre; Manitoba, 2e
n bushels; in Alberta, 3616 bushe
20 end over the three provinces there w
total average of over 80 bushels p
10 acre.
to The immense crop that has ju
IT been harvested has put millions of d.
II lars in the hands OF the farmers, al
IN the work of distribution through t
e. regular channels of trade has alreat
" begun. Millions of bushels Of gra
n are still in the hands of the farmer
"a which means that there is a vast sto
So of realizable wealth that will be stea
q lily going into circulation, benefittil
the thousands who are dependent