The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-05-29
LAW NEEDED IN
SELF. DEFENSE
IMMIGRATION MEASURE GIVES
STATE CHANCE TO COM.
PETE FOR SETTLERS

with the coming OF spring the Can
adam government has started an in
tensive campaign throughout the Unit
ed States to secure settlers for west
ern Canada-and through advertising
matter sent out by the government
immigration department are offering
inducements to people to come to Can
ada to make homes-citing the fact
that farm improvements are exempt
from taxation, that their hail insur-
ance plan makes the cheapest insur-
ance in the world-and picturing
where many reforms are being plan
ned to make farming more profitable
there than elsewhere.
Advertising Now Going Out.
The advertising matter is being sent
out broadcast, newspaper ads being
run everywhere in the United States
and personal representatives of the
Canadian government are visiting all
Of the agricultural sections setting
forth the advantages of the Canadian
northwest.
Campaign Having Effect
Already this campaign is having it's
effect. People who have lived in the
high rent districts through the cen
trail sections of this country are look
ing for a place where they car go and
buy land reasonably to make their
future home and the result of this
campaign by the Canadian govern
ment will be that many actual sett-
lers will pass through North Dakota
every day from this time on, going
further away to make their homes be-
cause they do not realize what this
state offers in the way of inducements
to the settler.
North Dakota's Opportunity
One of the measures enacted by the
Sixteenth assembly and which will be
bitterly opposed by the gang interests
of the state, provides an appropriation
for an immigration department to ad-
vertise the advantages of North Da-
kota in sections of the country. This
measure was approved by all Of the
best boosters in the state, but is op-
posed by the gang interests not be-
cause they believe it a bad proposition
but because they do not want any
thing to be put in their way while
they are carrying on their campaign
of Misrepresentation of North Dakota
in other states.
, Thousands Would Come
There are thousands Of people thru
the eastern and middle west sections
of the country, who would Jump at
the chance to come here and locate
taking advantage Of the provisions of
the Home Builders bill to secure a
home in the greatest agricultural state
in the nation, but these people are not
going to get a chance to learn of this
opportunity if the old gang political
interests can prevent it.
Why Gang Opposes
Those interests do not oppose the
idea of getting settlers but they do
oppose the plan Of telling the rest of
the world what North Dakota is Of
fering as an inducement to people to
come here-as they realize that a
farmer from Illinois or Iowa who
comes here and buys a home under
the plan offered by the Home Build
er's association will be friendly to the
program advocated by the organized
farmers and naturally favor the reten-
ton of popular government within the
- state.
Would Keep World Misinformed
This idea is distasteful to the gang
interests( who want to destroy the
farmers movement before it gains a