Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1910 — BACK FROM CANADA. [ARTICLE]

BACK FROM CANADA.

Some Farmers Who Emigrated are Coming Home. A counter-movement of immigration from Canada into the United States from “over-the-line” into northern Montana may fairly be taken as indicative of the present trend. According to an official report by United States Collector of Customs Blair at Sweetgrass in that state, hundreds of families have come over from Canada within the past week jnd have taken up government lands in Montana; this movement " began early in the winter and has increased each day until the total of newcomers from across the line has reached many thousands. These newcomers are very largely men and women who had given up their citizenship in the United States in order to take up Canadian government lands ; some of them have been in Canada long enough to prove up their homesteads, but large numbers of them have come back without waiting to obtain title to their lands. So there would appear to be no call for official or other action in this country to “stem the tide’’ of American immigration into Canada. . These things always adjust themselves if let alone. The Canadian land boom, the “call to the far northwest,” caught many thrifty American farmers no doubt who, had they taken thought and deliberately measured the chances for the success or the failure of the experiment, would never have “pulled up stakes”—and it is this class apparently that is now moving southward into ‘‘tire states;” others will stay and fight it out, of course. The incident is at least beginning to disclose that there is an unstable and migratory contingent among our northwestern farmers that is never quite satisfied with existing conditions. The great bulk of our northern and western farmers must sooner or later learn, however, that if a change is desirable, the south holds out the greatest attractions for them.—Kentland Enterprise.