WHY CANADIANS LEAVE CANADA

New Zealand Mail, 8 February 1900, Page 18

WHY CANADIANS LEAVE CANADA

A particularly seasonable aJy - first ot Mr Harry ; Fii r n io IllSil Sketches, which start number of the "Windsor important point he touchesSißi ber of Canadians who ' leave Ah land to make a home in the s£&3lpi 9, ne l ? t M les e expatriated CaSN ■ Jeuibiss his reasons inAhis way. " , r I was bor a farm he worked until I was grown-up. I withstanding the fertile soiT^jKW crops, and that we had an affiSW pty ot timber which could ready for market, the farmers jSSN tion ot the country were heariSMlS Their one great complaint tlSiffilr® now m many parts of Canada * ot a good market for their nfSdlillP I left the farm and went to li™P@B manufacturing' town, I foUTfipSiSll P?ople there were difhculty—no

MARKET FOR THEIR SURPTrs GOOD-. The Nova Scotian farmer could his eggs, his butter, his ' t-hidmf i‘ ainbs, or Ins potatoes in his nig&S kete Boston, and other Atlantic coast of the United' BtSff.il cause of tfie high duties on thes?& ffhe Nova Scotian miner also foimriy fe al fhtr.Lr£ , s»w , i-|

“Tn recent years extensive steel .a iron-making industries have been eetsf shed m Nova Scoria., but they are langj| ing to-day, in spite of Government K dies on all the iron and steel produced! cause of a lack of markets due to the dr” on iron and steel Going up to Quebec jd Ontario, we find the farmers there da out of 'their nearest markets in Re am, way. Hay, , barley, hops, and mntta which are easily raised in these prom® would find a, market in the United Stag if it were not for the tariff. So with & great deposits of nickel, the iron of in Lake Superior region, the horses, andofe animals, with which t lie Cahadainmua is glutted. All might be sold in this cos try if trade restrictions were abolished' “‘The same reasoning holds good in m gard to the North - West and Brits Columbia. The people of those secti® of the country are not prosperous mailt because they cannot sell their f>rodids They cannot soil their products' B ECAUSE OF TARIFF TAXES, which serve as an. almost impassable ba rier against trade on ita natural lira This is not a question of rival theoriesd protection or free trade. It is simplyi plain statement of facts as they exist, “‘I thoroughly appreciate the node giving the intending British emigrant,? the intending British investor, a beds view of Canada as a field for settlemeg or investment. But here cornea one grsi difficulty. There are now in varionß Na of the United States over one mnlia Canadians who have left their homes, s latives, and friends, to make their w«jh new surroundings. Now, of what uses it for you to urge English, Scotch, or IS emigrants to go to Canada so present trade conditions we Canaoufi who know all about our country, and bn tried to make a living in it, emigrate* the United States? Is it not evident before Canada can hope to attract dee able emigrants or to secure foreign «!». tal for investment, she must first be tea to keen her own people and money »■ home?’’ .