American farmers are going to Canada by the thousand. “Free
land,” once the brightest attraction to the United States, may no longer serve
to attract the industrious here, and Canada has become indeed the land of
promise. In two great movements settlers from this country are going to the
dominion. One of these movements it towards the province of Ontario, where
25,000,000 acres of good farm lands await settlement. The American Company, of
which W.H. Utt of Chicago is solicitor, is being established to take advantage
of this. The other great movement is into Manitoba. The first is intended to
draw the farmers of the middle West. The second to attract the grain raisers of
the West. Here is a view of the situation as set forth by a Canadian official,
and it is most suggestive of changing conditions here:
“The United States, with reference particularly to the
middle West, is composed of tenant farmers. It is impossible for these farmers
to obtain the land they cultivate. This land is held by the few, the men of
wealth. The farmer, even though he were able, cannot purchase the land, because
the wealthy few will not sell. He cannot own his home if he continues to live
in the United States. He cannot go elsewhere in the country and obtain land.
All the government properties have been taken. There is no available farm land
in America, co-called.”
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