Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1914 — Forcing the .Canadian Discussion On The Republican. [ARTICLE]

Forcing the .Canadian Discussion On The Republican.

Some months 'ago Theodore George, a Rensselaer young man whose life is an open book, opened up a real estate office in Rensselaer to push the sale of Canadian land, acting as the agent for the Canadian Pacific Railroad. He secured office room in Republican and advertised extensively in this newspaper. Mr. George had previously been in the motion picture business in Rensselaer and during all of that time he had advertised extensively in The Republican and a friendship had sprung up between he and the publishers. He found it unnecessary to use The Democrat to any great extent, because The Republican went into practically every home. This created a green-eyed hatred on the part of Editor Babcock and he assailed the proposition Mr. George was advertising in a manner iso contemptible as to call forth many remarks from Mr. George’s friends and from respectable people who could see plainly that the purpose of attacking the Canadian proposition was a personal one against Mr. George and instigated The Democrat did not receive any advertising. The Canadian land proposition was solely Mr. Gauge's affair and Mr. George handled it by himself in the face of the contemptible tactics in which Babcock indulged. The Republican never came to the defense of Mr. George, because The Rephblioan itself was not assailed. But in a recent issue of The Democrat reference is made to The Republican, saying that E. J. and C. W. Duvall’s report of their Canadian trip was published much to the anger and chagrin of The Republican. This makes us a party to the cirticism and throws the bars down for our reply. We shall not trouble our readers about a long defense of Canada. We don’t know a great lot about it and it is not probable that there will be an extended exodus otf Jasper county people to that country. There are those, however, who are always looking for an opportunity •

for investment and who are seeking new homes, those who do not have sufficient money to buy land in this high-priced country. To them parts of Canada hold out fine opportunities. Not to the timid, not to those who hope to “get rich quick,” but to sturdy pioneel's who expect to endure some hardships and meet some disappointments' in the making of homes.

Philip Blue will return here about November Ist -to spend the winter. He has spent one summer there and it is understood has done very nieely. He will be able to enlighten any who care to learn about Canada. There are now in that country quite a number from Jasper county and we understand many of them are making money each year. C. W. and E. J. Duvall, who accompanied Mr. George to Canada, wrote back and brought back very discouraging reports of what they Saw. The Republican doubts the judgment of both of these men. 1 It is absolutely impossible that conditions could be as they have reported as some of the sections they visited have developed so remarkably within recent years. Bbt The Republican had no fight and made no reply. Now, however, it seems that The Democrat is determined to make us a inft-ty to its disgraceful assaults on Mr. George and we feel it perfectly fair to say that the failure of Bam Duvall is not sufficient cause to cast a stigma upon the Dominion of Canada. Sam went to that country a number of years ago. Most people will remember Bam. He was commonly called “Buck,” a nickname that will recall him to many who'might have forgotten that he had any other name. Bam was reported to be very successful for a number otf years, and his brother, C. W. Duvall, has talked personally with the writer, telling him how well Sam was getting along and what broad acres he was (farming and what an accumulation of stock he had made. That (sounded good to ail of Sam’s ©ld friends, for he had never shown much of the substantial about here. Sam’s prosperity up there, however, seemed to be short lived and various stories filtered all the way from Canada about Sam’s conduct On one trip down here he took a Mrs. Turner back with him and is supposed to have later married her. It was reported that ’ Mrs. Turner’s daughter parted Sam’s son, Charley, and his wife and that Charley had to leave Canada altogether and located in Montana. Of course, It’s a long way from here to Canada, and Sam’s life up there may have been as virtuous as a virgin, but judging from his old life here he is hardly the fellow one would expect to accumulate quite all of Alberta In a dozen years, and when his relatives found him clear down and out, after having understood that

he was right in clover, it was doubtless somewhat of a shock and disappointment to them, although none of Buck’s old acquaintances were staggered by the Information. His condition, however, seems to have prompted the Duvalls to paint a picture of Canada so black that one would judge it to be a barren waste from one end to the other.

Canada has a greater area than the United States. It has some bad land, Just as Indiana has, just as Jasper county has. Not all who go there succeed, just as some who go to the Dakotas, to Montana and other western states tail while others lay the foundation for permanent prosperity. But Sam English is succeeding, Mrs. Bertha Bishop and her husband are succeeding, Tom Hart, of ML Ayr, is doing fine; Jay Allen, of Brookston, is getting to the front. A letter recently published from F. M. Lewis, whose wife was one of the Paris girls, formerly of this city, and who has been a resident of Alberta for eight years, can be depended upon 4s the judgment of an intelligent man who is right on the ground and knows. I The Democrat has been publishing occasionally communications from some person who has met disappointment in Canada. The letters show that the writers art of a type that are not apt to succeed any place. The writeA are unknown to Babcock, but he employs their miserable criticisms of Canada, not because they are worthy or fair or honest, but to continue his contemptible policy of abusing Theodore George, who refused to advertise in The Democrat. The Democrat is conducted by a man whose anhnovrity leads him to the use of tactics that have no parallel. for unfairness and dishonesty,