54. CANADA AND THE EMPIRE.

“If you had it in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, or Kentucky,
 you could get $100 an acre for it in a very
short time. I have seen river bottom-land not so
fertile as this sold for $120 an acre in Indiana.”—
Settler's Letter.
“ There was a time when our popular campaign
song was ¢ Uncle Sam Is Rich Enough to Give Us
All a Farm. To-day he has not any farms to give us
that we can cultivate, All of the agricultural land
that can be cultivated without irrigation is gone, and
the people are selling their homes in the United
States and moving out into North-Western Canada,
west of Winnipeg, where they can buy land at from
$6 to $10 an acre. More people have gone there
than many of our men would like to acknowledge.” —
My. James J. Hill. speaking at Minneapolis, January,
1004.

Thus, then, there is every reason to choose
Canada as an agricultural country in which to
settle, and indeed the figures of United States
immigration into Canada, here given, prove that
the republican is realising this.
We cannot but think that the foregoing facts
appreciably dispose of the desire to assist Canada
either actually, or as compared to the United States.
To sum up :—
(1) Agriculture in Canada is abundantly prosperous.

(2) The agricultural advantages of Canada are
being healthily and thoroughly exploited.
(3) It is unnecessary to aid agriculture and
immigration by any artificial advantages of tariff.
(4) Not only is such artificial stimulus unnecessary,
 but its effect will be hardly appreciated