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Show SECURE A FREE HOME In the Fertile Wheat Fields of Western Canada. To tho Editor: Tho emigration of well-to-do farmers from tho United Stales to tho Canadian Northwest has assumed euch proportions that organized organ-ized efforts are now being mado by Interested persons and corporations to itom tho tide. The efforts aro being Initiated chlofly by railway nnd real eslato Interests In tho states from which tho bulk of tho emigration takci place. Tho movement of population has taken from numerous states thou-eands thou-eands of persons whoso presence-along presence-along railways in these states mado business for tho transportation companies. com-panies. Tho movement has also bo-como bo-como so widely known that it has pro-vontod pro-vontod tho settlement of vacant lands along theso lines, parties who might have located there boing attracted to tho free and moro fort tie lands of Canada. Can-ada. Tho result of tho movement has been that tho railway companies not only sco tho vacant lands along their lines remain vacant, but they nlso see hundreds of substantial farmers who have helped provide business for theso railways movo away and so cease their contributions. Tho farmers havo movod to Canada because- thoy wcro convinced that it would be to their financial interest to do so. In moving they havo been inconsiderate enough to plnco their own financial interests before thoso of tho financial interests of tho railway corporations. In addition to tho railway corporations, corpora-tions, real estata dealers aro working to stem tho flow of emigrants. Of courso every emigrant who goes to Canada means tho loss of commissions on land deals by real cstato dealers. Now n person has hut to know what tho Interests are that aro tryjug to stop tho flow to know what motlvo is Influencing their courso. Tho emigration emigra-tion means financial loss to railway corporations and to real estate men. Theso interests theroforo are not directing di-recting their opposition efforts out of any lovo for the departing emigrants tr out of any high patriotic motives tlthor. They nro doing so purely from tolflsh Interests. It Is a matter of dollars dol-lars and conts with them. They aro so patriotic, thoy aro bo consumed by love for their follow-cltlzons, that they want to prevent thgso fellow-citizens going to Canada and getting freo farms of tho best wheat land in the Korld, and Instead they want to make thorn stay on high-priced farms In tho United States, whoro thoy will continue con-tinue to pour money Into tho pockets of theso railways aud real estate men. Ono of tho mothods employed by thoso interests to stem tho tide is tho distribution of matter to newspapers, painting Canada in tho darkest colors. Theso artlclos emanato chlofly from a bureau in St. Louis. Thoy aro sent out at frequent Intervals for simultaneous simul-taneous publication. A writer is employed em-ployed at a high salary to prepare the matter. toreoicr, .itntcrienta absqlutcl)" nt variance' with tho) truth havo lately been published broadcast. Thoso appear ap-pear chiefly In what purport to bo letters let-ters from persons who aro alleged to havo gone to Canada and become disgusted dis-gusted with It. Only a few of such havo been published, nnd thoy contain statements that aro absurd In their falsity. Whether tho parties whoso names appear in connection with thoso tetters havo ever been In Canada, and, If so, their history whllo th?re, is to bo thoroughly looked Into, Tho discovery dis-covery of their motlvo, llko tho discovery dis-covery of tho motlvo of tho interests Xho aro engineering tho opposition, may provo illumining. In tho meantime, mean-time, howovor, It may bo polntod out that only a few of such lcttors havo appeared, but sinco 1807 over 87,000 American settlors have gone to tho Canadian West. Can nny reasonable person supposo for a moment that if Canada was ono-quartor as bad as rep resented In thoso letters tho 87.000 Amerlcns now thoro would remain In tho country; or, If tho Canadian Wost bad not proved tho truth of all that was claimed for It, tho papors of every stato In tho American Northwest would not ho fllled with lottcrs saying so? Imnglno 87,000 nggresslvo Amor-leans Amor-leans dccolvcd and not making short shift of their docelvors. The fact is tho 87,000 aro woll satisfied and nro encouraging their friends to follow them. J Anyono who soes any of thoso dls- I paraglng lottcrs should remombor that It Is railway and real cstato lntorcsts who havo from puroly selfish reasons organized a campaign to stem tho flow to Carada. If Canada were half as bad as represented there would bo no need of such an organization. Tho i fact that such exists is of Itself a mag- niflcent tribute to Carada. Finally it , should not be forgotten that tho lottcrs published aro brimful of falsehoods, and that 87,000 patlsllod Americans in tho Canadian Wost constitute a living proof that such Is tho caso. Tho Canadian Government agent whoso namo appears In advertisement clsowhoro In this papor Is authorized to givo all Information as to ratos and availablo lands in Western Canada. |