Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1905 — CANADA'S PERIL. [ARTICLE]

CANADA'S PERIL.

To Re Invaded by 200,000 Russian Stundist Immigrants. Canada is to be invaded by a peacefid army of Russian Stmidist immigrants, according to a report which says that 200,000 of these people are preparing to emigrate this year and settle in the Canadian Northwest. There are leaders of public opinion in the Dominion Who, having the experience of the United States before them, regard with serious misgivings the steady annual increase of the foreign element in th population of Canada. But the present prospect of hundreds of thousands of European immigrants swarming like locusts over the choice western lands is now giving Canadians something to think about in pursuing the policy of populating the Dominion. During the early part of the winter the arrivals of Russian Jews in unusually large numbers gave the Canadian authorities very setions trouble. The invasion, therefore, by this new immigrant army of 200,000 persons can only inspire officials and others with feelings of apprehension, if not dismay.