The Orlando Clipper (Orlando, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, March 3, 1916 Page: 3 of 12
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THE ORLANDO CLIPPER
. WAITING FOR TOE
END OF FOE WAR
“Then Take Advantage of the
Opportunities 1n Canada.”
(Contributed by W.. J. White, of the
Department of the Interior,
Ottawa, Canada.)
I strolled into a bank in one of the
cities of the west a short time ago and
the bank manager said “after the
war, the Canadians should be pre-
pared for a great influx of people.
The crops that the western Canadian
farms have produced in 1915, and the
wealth that the farmers have had
thrust upon them by the high price
of grain, will make farm lands valu-
able and farming remunerative. After
the war is over there will be thou-
sands go to Canada to engage in agri-
culture and many other industries that
will certainly prove profitable. Condi-
tions will be wonderfully good. The
advertising that Canada has had dur-
ing the last year or two by its magnifi-
cent contribution of over 250,000 men
to tight for the Empire, the wondferful
sums it has given to the Red Cross
and Patriotic funds, the excellent
showing it made in subscribing over
double when only 50 millions of dollars
was asked as a war loan, the brav-
ery, courage and hardihood of the sol-
diers who have fought the battles in
Flanders, it is just wonderful,” and
my enthusiastic banker grew eloquent.
One might have thought he was a sub-
sidized booster for Canada. '“But,” he
said “they won’t go until after the
war.”
“Well, now, Mr. -, why wait un-
til after the war? If all you say be
true, and you have said nothing yet
of the wonderful bank clearings of
• Canada today, nothing of the fact that
the immense grain crop of Western
Canada this year has given to every
man, woman and child tn that coun-
try, over three hundred dollars per
j head, why wait until after the war?
After the war, under such conditions
as you have pictured (and which are
real) land values will go up, prices
will increase. Advantage should be
taken of the low prices at which these
agricultural lands can be had today.
They have not increased any as yet,
and excellent farm lands can be had
close to railways in old settlements,
in excellent communities for from fif-
teen to thirty dollars per acre. The
climate is good and will be no better
after the war.”
“What about conscription, though?
Is there not a danger from conscrip-
tion, and should I advise any to go
there now, would they not have to
face it? Then too, there is the report
that there is a heavy war tax on
lands.”
1 was surprised to learn that these
old yarns, stories that 1 thought had
been exploded long ago, were still do-
ing duty in many parts of the United
States, and that a gentleman cf the
wide learning of my friend, was in-
clined to believe them.
“Conscription!” 1 said. “With Can-
ada contributing 250,000 men voluntari-
ly enlisted, why conscription? There
is no conscription in Canada, and
neither will there be. It is ndt need-
ed. In any case no legislation could
be passed by the Dominion Parliament
which would impose military service
upon people who are not citizens of
Canada, either by birth or naturaliza-
tion. Settlers from the United States
could not become naturalized British
subjects until they had resided in
Canada continuously for three years,”
1 quoted from official documents.
“In the first few months of the war
1 clearly stated that there would not
y bo conscription in Canada. I repea*
that statement today.”
“And then as to taxes,” I continued,
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CASTORIA
THI OINTAUX 60KKNT. NEW YON* CITY.
quoting again from official authority.
“All taxes levied by the Federal Gov-
ernment take the indirect form of cus-
toms excise and inland revenue du-
ties. It Is untrue that farmers are
paying direct war-tax levies and no
intending settler need hesitate to
come to Canada on this account.
“Official denials should convince you
that all apprehensions which have
been making some would-be-settlers
from the United States hesitate to
make a change while the war lasts
are without foundation. With these
misunderstandings cleared up, the
present war conditions even become
an added inducement to settlement in
any part of the provinces of western
Canada, inasmuch as war prices and
keen demands for all manner of farm
products afford the farmer a special
opportunity to make money.”
I was glad of the chance and
pleased to have him state that his
views had altogether changed.
I could have continued, and told him
of the fortunes that had been made in
the seiason of 1915, out of farming,
wheat growing, oat growing, barley
growing, cattle raising, dairying and
mixed farming. I could have told
him of an Ottawa (Canada) syndicate
that had a yield of 130 bushels of
oats per acre from their farm at Wain-
wright and from 60 acres of wheat
field they threshed over 6C bushels per
acre. These yields while phenomenal,
were repeated in many portions of
western Canada. It was interesting to
inform him that the average yield of
spring wheat in Saskatchewan was
25.16 bushels per acre; Manitoba, 26.3
bushels; in Alberta, 36.16 bushels,
and over the three provinces there was
a total average of over 30 bushels per
acre.
“The immense crop that has just
been harvested has put millions of dol-
lars in the hands of the farmers, and
the work of distribution through the
regular-channels of trade has already
begun. Millions of bushels of grain
are still in the hands of the farmers,
which means that there is a vast store
of realizable wealth that will be stead-
ily going into circulation, benetitting
the thousands who -are dependent in-
directly on the basic industry of the
province for their livelihood.
“The mock prosperity that rested on
the insecure foundation of inflated real
estate values has passed away, and in
its place the corner stone of the coun-
try’s sound financial future is being
built.
“The trust and mortgage companies,
the large implement concerns and the
wholesale merchants all tell the same
story today of marked improvement
in their business. The farmers and
others are meeting their just dues and
paying off debts that in many cpses
have been long overdue. Collections
are better today than they have been
since the most prosperous days of our
history, and obligations are being met
freely and promptly.
“Now,” I said, “why should they
wait until the war is over?”
And he agreed with me.—Advertise-
ment.
Evidently the poet was broke when
he said to his best girl: “Drink to
me only with thine eyes.”
To Drive Out Malaria
And Build Up The System
Take the Old Standard GROVE'S
TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know
what you are taking, as the formula is
printed on every label, showing it is
Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form. The
Quinine drives out malaria, the Iron
builds up the system. 50 cents.
After working hard to get money a
man has tc work twice as bard to
keep it.
For hot grease burns apply Han-
ford’s Balsam lightly until the fire Is
extracted. Adv.
To have what you want is wealth;
to do without is power.
Slim Picking.
“What do you gather from today’s
war news?”
"Oh, nothing much except three or
four proper names I'll have to lock up
in a gazetteer.”
PROMPT RELIEF
can be found in cases of Colds, Coughs,
LaGrippe and Headaches by using
Laxative Quinidine Tablets. Does not
affect the head or stomach. Buy your
winter’s supply now. Price 25c.—Adv.
Most mer. care less for the trump
of fame than for the trump that
scoops the pot.
_
Thoroughly Natural.
“Did he lie a natural death?”
“Yes, sc I understand. He was run
over in the streets of New Yoik.”—
Life.
AVOID A DOCTOR’S BILL
on the first of the month by taking
now a bottle of Mansfield Cough Bal-
sam for that hacking, hollow cough.
Price 25c and 50c.—Adv.
The Other Way About.
“Wonder how old Roxleigh came tc
select such a young wife.”
"H6 .didn’t. She selected him.”
Does Fain Interfere?
There is a remedy
Sloan's
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Read this unsolicited grateful
testimony—
Not long ago my left knee be-
came lame and sore. It pained
me many restless nights. So se-
rious did it become that I was
forced to consider giving up my
work when Pchanced to think of
Sloan’s Liniment. Let me say—
less than one bottle fixed me up.
Chas. C. Campbell, Florence, Tex.
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Lanter, W. L. The Orlando Clipper (Orlando, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, March 3, 1916, newspaper, March 3, 1916; Orlando, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc910520/m1/3/: accessed April 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.