Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1910 — UNCLE JOE CANNON. [ARTICLE]

UNCLE JOE CANNON.

He Also Speeks Well of Canada. No matter what may be the opinion of Mr. Joseph Cannon, no matter if he may be looked upon by some as a czar, and by others as a big, warmhearted man, with many of the instincts that make humanity very bearable, all will admit that he is a man who has been advertised more than any other man in the United States. What he may have to say therefore on any subject, will have weight. Observant, he speaks his mind freely. He was interviewed the other day by the correspondent of a Canadian newspaper, he spoke of his admiration for Canada, and he is quoted in a way that pictures fsirly well the personnel of the man. The correspondent says he launched out into personal biography, proverbial' philosophy, political comment, cynical scorn, broad profanity and sentimental poetry such as one rarely hears In the space of an hour. He discussed the Canadian tariff, and therf said: “People say I break the Ten Commandments, all of them. But I don’t, at least not often. I did break one of them up in Canada two or three years ago. As I rode from Winnipeg to the Rockies over your great West and saw the finest wheatflelds in the world, I thought of Virginia and a lot of />ur States, and I smashed the Tenth Commandment every hour of the journey. Yes, sir, I coveted my neighbor’s land.” Coming from a man of the fame of Mr. Cannon, these were words that should have eome weight with the Americans who may still have doubts of the advantages that are offered to them in Western Canada. A home amongst the wheat fields. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are adopting it. They go to Central Canada, to any one of the three Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan or Alberta, or to the coast Province of British Columbia, take up their homestead of 160 acres, and probably pre-empt another 160 acres, or It may be they do not care for pioneering twenty or thirty miles from an existing railway, and purchase a farm. Then they settle upon it and, having no clearing away of timber they begin at once to cultivate it, and make money. That they make money and much more than they could possible make on the high-priced farms they have left, is the evidence of hundreds of thousands. They do not leave civilized life, they but remove from one sphere to another. They have splendid social conditions, churches, schools, rural telephones, splendid roads, railways, convenient just the same as what they left, and what is more, they get much greater returns from their crops, which give abundant yield. The climate is perfect, and it is nA wonder that most flattering reports are sent back to their friends in the States, and It no wonder that Joe Cannon was tempted to speak as he did. He “coveted” his neighbor’s land.