Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1914 — If You Buy a Farm in Canada You Must Live On It. [ARTICLE]

If You Buy a Farm in Canada You Must Live On It.

The Canadian Pacific railroad is not looking for speculators in Canadian land. It is required that purchasers either live on the land or supply a tenant, This is a irontier necessity. ‘ Land can not purchased for another person by a representative. It is required that the himself see it and select it. • v ’ There may be some people who will take <the word of a dog-in-the manger newspaper or who will be influenced by the knocks df some persons who have an axe to grind, but the great majority of sensible people Will be unwilling to believe that Canada is a desolate waste because a few miserable people have made a complete failure in some • parts. Any man who locates on Canadian Pacific land can expect to encounter hardships, just as the pioneers oT-Jasp er county encountered them, just as the people who emigrated to' Kanshs and Oklahoma met them and just as the brave men and women who are now proving up claims in Montana, many, many miles from railroads, meet them. A few faint-hearted fail, the boozers and loafers and dead beats all fail unless they reform their but the energetic, honest, hopeful class - have succeeded, are succeeding and will continue to succeed on the frontier lands of the Canadian Pacific notwithstanding the wailings of a snarling newspaper. The proposition made by the Canadian Pacific has few parallels as proof of its confidence in the land it sells, for it loans back for improvements and for the stocking of the farms more than ifi required as a payment on the land. It is no place for loafers or for weakhearted people, but thousands of those who locate there now with a small amount of capital will be numbered ’among the successful farmers of Canada in future years, and the only satisfaction that Babcock and his conspirators will have will be that they have injured Theodore George, the local agent, by their • combined misrepresentations of his business. A poor satisfaction,