Show SECURE A FREE HONIE in the fertile wheat fields of western canada to 10 the editor the emigration of well to do farmers from the united states to the canadian northwest has assumed such proportions that organ zed efforts are now being made by interested persons and corporations to etem stem the tide the efforts are being initiated chiefly by railway and real estate interests in the states from which the bulk of the emigration takes place the movement of population has taken from numerous states thou sands of persons presence along railways in these states made business for the transportation corn com panics parries the moi movement ement has also be codeso widely known that it t has pre vented the th settlement et dement ot of vacant lands along these lines parties who might have located there being attracted to the tree free and more inore fertile lands of can ada the result of the movement has been tha ha the railway companies not only see the vacant lands along their lines remain vacant but they also see hundreds of substantial farmers who have e helped provide business tor for these railways move away and so cease pease their contributions the farmers have moved to canada because they were convinced that it would be to their financial interest to do so in moving they have been inconsiderate enough to place their own financial interests before those of the financial interests of the railway corporations in addition to the railway corpora eions real estate dealers are working to stem the flow of emigrants of course every emigrant who goes to canada means the loss of commissions on land deals by real estate dealers now a person bis but to know what the interests are that are trying to stop the flow to know what motive is influencing their course the emiera tion means financial loss to railway corporations and to real estate men these interests therefore are not dl ill reeling their opposition efforts out ot of any love for the departing emigrants cr tr out of any high patriotic motives motive cither they are doing so purely from interests it is a matter of dol tars and cents with them they are so patriotic they are so consumed by love tor for their fellow citizens that they want to prevent ahse fellow citizens going to canada and getting tree free farms of the best wheat land in the world and instead they want to make them stay on high priced farms in the united states where they will con dinue to pour money into the pockets of these railways and real estate men one of the methods employed by these interests to stem the tide Is the distribution of matter to newspapers painting canada in the darkest colors these articles emanate chiefly from a bureau in st louis they are sent out at frequent intervals for simul ganeous publication A writer is em aloyed at a high salary to prepare the matter moreover statements absolutely at variance with the truth have lately been published broadcast these appear chiefly in what purport to be let from persons who are alleged to have gone to canada and become dis eusted gusted with it only a few of such have been published and they contain statements that are absurd in their falsity whether the parties whose names appear in connection with these letters have ever been in fn canada and it so their history while there Is to be thoroughly looked into the dis covery of their motive like the dis covery of the motive of the interests mio tho are engineering the opposition prove IlIum illumining ining in the mean time however hoever it may be pointed out that only a few of such letters have appeared but since 1897 over 87 american amerian settlers have gone to the canadian west can any reasonable person suppose for a moment that if canada was one quarter as bad as represented in these letters the 87 Ameri cris now there would remain in the country or it if the candian west had not proved the truth of ah all that was claimed for it the papers of every state in the american northwest would not be filled with letters saying so 9 imagine 87 aggressive amer leans deceived and not making short shift of their dec deceivers elvers the fact is the 87 are well satisfied and are encouraging their friends to follow them anyone who sees any of these dis pa raging letters should remember that it Is railway rallay and real estate interests who have from purely selfish reasons organized a campaign to stem the flow to canada it canada were halt as bad as represented there would be no need of such an organization the tact fact that such exists Is of itself a mag ent tribute to canada finally it should not be forgotten that the letters published are brimful of falsehoods and that 87 satisfied americans in the canadian west constitute a living proof that such Is the case the canadian government agent whose name appears in advertisement elsewhere in this paper is authorized to give all information as to rates and available lands in western canada |