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Show swamp lands could be drained, tbat would open a grtat many million acres of land to settlers. The land would bring better crops than the Canadian land and the crops would bring more money. That i only one instance.. In one thing the government i doing magnificent work that ia the work of the agricultural schools and in the hands of experts that they send out t make suggestions to farmers, to cause them to plant what they should plant in the right place and not to plant something that will not grow where they try to raise it. There are millions mil-lions of farms in the old settled portion of the country coun-try that ar not half tilled. Men own lands in those states which they do not try to put ' to use, and those ought to be chased up with taxes until they would either cultivate their soil or sell it. It is a pity for young men to go to Canada to make homes, but those, we suspect, are simply older sons leaving the old farm to the younger boys, and then a little of that is but fair play, because we have been draining drain-ing Canada of her strong young people for the last forty-flvs yesrs. Canadian born people are found in every town on our side ; they simply followed a natural pith in coming this way. Long ago our railroads were stretched out across the Mississippi and Missouri valleys, and then over the Rocky mountains to meet the wave that was rolling eastward east-ward from our west coast, and the opportunities were great for, everyone. Now the regions near the roadsare pMttywellsttled, and Canada is pushing her roads into unexplored territory and giving, in one form or another, bounties to those who. will settle up the lands. It seems to be a perfectly per-fectly natural process by which our young men- go to Canada. That will regulate itself after a little, because the best lands will be taken and it will be developed that, after all, land nearly under the arctic circle is not such delightful place for young people to . make their home. . There ought to be some improvements made in' our country pretty soon, public improvements to benefit the people. We do not know aa they will ever come until one more great panic sweeps our country, and then the people will demand to know what the matter mat-ter is in tones so stern that the statesmen of our country will have to reply and make better provisions provi-sions for the forward march of our country than exist at present. ; . ' : TCS QUESTION CF HOME MAKING. The Hon. John Dalzell, the Pittsburg congressman, congress-man, made a speech the other Jay in congress in which he said, "Any poliey that takes from us onr boys and girls, the good red blood of American manhood and womanhood, that depletes the valley of the Mississippi and the plains of the west, and . lowers farm values here while increasing them : across the border, robs us of our dearest and most . vslusble possession." , The sentiment of that, is good, but where the application comes in w ean hardly see. The lands , are cheaper across in Canada, the climate ia not so very much worse, probably no worse than our Dakota. If a young man can buy and improve 160 acres beyond the line and could not buy and . improve one-fourth of that amount on this side of the line, it seems to us very natural that he should go and take his sweetheart with him. We think he . ' would be making a mistake, that he would do bet-, bet-, ter to go southwest or to come to Utah and that if ho would, he would find ont that with the market, the prices, all considered, twenty acres of good land under wster would yield more net profit most any-' any-' where in this interior region than would the 160 acres in Canada. . There are but one or two crops thst csn be raised with any profit at the north,, ' that is only one or two crops that a market ean be obtained for, and our belief is that the present ex- . citement for running away to Canada to buy a home will pass away soon aa the matter is v eighed carefully; and as soon as the boys and girls bo go there have two or three years' trisl. But that is no matter; what we were thinking of was what Mr. Dalxell is doing to chsnge the present policy of his own country; what is he doing to stop paying interest, what is he doing to put a new life into business,' to gel the business of the country under such guiding hands that young men of this country will have no occasion to go out - from under the flag to make homes elsewhere. Present matters cannot be much changed either by accepting or rejecting reciprocity. The groove in which the farmers are working now in the old west, all over the Mississippi valley, cannot be much changed by anything that is going on on fovernment lands. ' There is a great deal of land 1 . twen the Atlantic and the Rocky mountaina thst 1 ' t be made to yield if the proper improvements " put upon it Neither the states nor the gov-. gov-. t ire doinif anything in thst Jine. If the |