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Ready-to-wear Lawn Blouses
One line, regular $1.00 to $1,25 ---on Sale at.. .,$ .75
Another line, regular $1,25 to $1,50 -on Sale at . 1,00
Staple Department.
70 in. Bleached Sheeting, reg. 30c, this week for $ 20
72 in. Unbleached Twilled Sheeting, reg. 30e, for .20
36 in. " Cotton, reg. 8c, for...... ............. .05
Good large Bed Spreads, reg. $1.25, for . 1.00
Great Bargains for Men and Boys.
50 Ready-made Suits for Men and Boys in Serges
and Tweeds. As we're going out of Men's Ready-made
Snits, we aro offering them away below cost. Come in
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Mange!, Sugar Beet and Turnip Seeds.
Our Garden Seeds are the very best to be had
anywhere, not cheap good-for-nothing American
trash unfit to put in the soil, but Fresh Seeds from
the most reliable houses in Canada.
Corn for maturing and silo purposes, such as
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King Phillip, North Dakota, go Day Leaming,
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Flax Seed and Pure Ground Flax ; Bibby's a
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THE WINGI-IAM ADVANCE THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1906
Speech By Dr, Chisholm, M, P,
In the House of Cannons, 00.
The North West Lands.
May tali, t906,
Mr. Speaker, the hon. gentleman as follows :---
frons Strathcona (Mr. McIntyre) is When the House rose at six o'clock,
perhaps right in his statements with I was trying to show that Canadian
regard to certain matters which he farmers' sons and other young men in
dealt with. There is certainly great eastern Canada were at a disadvant-
difliculty to be net with in the ad- ago, or were scarcely being treated
ministration of onr Dominion lands in fairly as compared with Donkhobor•s
the west, and there is undoubtedly and. other foreigners. The hon, mem-
great evil abroad in that country. At her for Strathcona (Mr. McIntyre)
the close of the session last year 1 stated to -day that farriers and farm -
visited the two new provinces of Al- ers' sons who went from eastern ()a-
borts, and Saskatchewan, and I spent nada were our best settlers. Now I
several months examining different think they should bo given some ad -
parts of the western country. I was vantage ; they should not only be put
looking for land, not only for niy own , ou an equality with foreigners, but be
sons, bot for a number of farmers and I given an advantage over foreigners.
other young seen in the county of ;From what we -have heard to -day
Huron, who wish to nutke. their hones I from the other side of the House, I
in our Canadian West. It was there- think there are two evils complained
fore natural that I should view the of, and I believe the same remedy
country from" the standpoint of the might be applied to cure them both.
eastern Canadian farmer looking for I think our Canadian farmers' Sons
land for his sons. After I got to should have, as I said, an advantage
ifficiilt
The other d
• h over foreigners. Winnipeg, I travelled back anfox l Y
over the prairie nearly 5,000 miles on I refer to is that of blanketing home -
the railway, and then I bought a span steads. I can quite understand that is
and with my. son I drove and drove a very difficult problem. It was ex -
many miles in a buggy, -so that I plained to us to -day, and it was ex -
think I have had a fairly good op- plained to us by the Minister of the
portunity to form an opinion in re- Interior a few evenings ago. I can
gard to that western country. I must well understand that it is a very dif-
say in my opinion the extent of our flcult thing to distinguish between
really good land is not so great as I fake homesteaders and those who
had been led to suppose. Last night, really intend to settle in the country.
the hon. member for East Assiniboia What I would propose is this, that
gave ns a statement as to that coun- the privilege of entering for homc-
try which corresponds fairly well with steads by proxy should be confined to
give
e That would
my own idea. He said that our fertile Canadians alone.
belt was about 200 miles wide and 800 our young people an advantage ver
miles long. In many places it is others, and would be a very satisfac-
scarcely 200 miles wide, but it will tory arrangement. I know that all
certainly average from 150 to 100 through eastern Canada there is a
miles wide, and extending from Win- feeling that our young men aro not
nipeg to Edmonton it is 800 miles being treated fairly. Again, I think
long. This is a mean estimate be- that the privilege to make entries for
tween the opinions of Dr. Saunders others by proxy should be guarded
and Professor Mayor, and I think it is very carefully. I think the depart -
pretty nearly correct. We must re- went should require from the party
member, however, that to the north wishing to make an entry that he give
of this fertile belt, there is a good deal references, the same as are given by
of scrub and slough land that may
possibly make very good farms in the
future, but which is not desirable land
a person applying for a position in a
bank or any other important position.
Let the department put themselves in
in the meantime, inasmuch as it is communication with these referees,
very difficult and very expensive to and ascertain not only that the par -
bring it under cultivation. ties making entries by proxy are bona
To the south and west of this fertile fide, but that referees also are bona
belt there is a very large area contain- fide. Then I think an entry that is
ing a great deal of excellent land made by proxy should be put in a dif-
which without irrigation will be of ferent class from those which are
very little use in very clry years, and made by the persons themselves. I
even within our fertile belt there are would say that an entry that is being
large districts of wet land, gravelly or made by proxy should terminate at
sandy land, stony or hilly land, which the end of six months, it should not
cannot be thought of for farms in the stand as long as one made by the
meantime, although no doubt they party in person. I merely out -line
may be at some time settled. There these suggestions, and the minister
are also immense areas of the finest might take up the idea, with his as -
and most fertile prairie land in the sistants, and elaborate it. There
world. In these good districts I saw might be something done in this direc-
thousands of acres of beautiful wheat tion. I do not know that my idea
standing as high as my shoulder and may be of much value, but I venture
as thick as it could grow, giving to give it, because I think it is the
twenty, thirty, forty, and in some duty of both sides of the House to dn-
cases I was told fifty bushels to the deavour to improve our legislation.
acre. I saw wheat growing on the To show that the evil really does
the first break that would give a man exist, I will take the liberty of read -
$3 a day for himself and his team ing extracts from two letters I have in
for every day occupied in preparing • my hand. One is from Mr. G. H. Len -
the land, putting in the seed, harvest- nox, local agent, Canadian North Da-
ing the crop and driving the grain to kota Land Company, Winnipeg, April
the market—that would pay for the 0, 1000 :
seed, the binder twine and all other "Your proposed policy will also pre-
vent what is called the blanketing of
homesteads by speculators and ir-
responsible agents called locaters
which has prevented settlement in
many districts where good land is yet
H. what a privilege and advantage lying idle. This is very much in evi-
there will be nothing else left for
theist. '.Chi:+ wilful waste of our fertile
belt is like the wantons destruction of
the buffalo on out' plains, of of the
'bite tisk in our lakes. 11 was
thought that the supply of these could
never be exhausted and we know the
resnits.
We must remember ber that already
One nam out of every five in our two
new provinces is a foreigner who does
not understand) our language, our laws
or our system of government. Surely
it cannot be possible that the govern-
ment of Canada is massing these
strangers and foreigners together in
solid blocks because they think they
can mislead these innocent people and
by carving up their settlements put tt
few hundred of these voters into one
constituency and a few more into an-
other and thus gerrymander the coun-
try and neutralize. and control the
votes of intelligent and well-informed
citizens who came originally from eas-
tern Canada, from Great Britain or
from the United States. If this is
their' object, it is not a very high class
of statesmanship, and I ani sure that
it will bring its own punishment.
Even the Donlchobors will see through
it in time and learn to vote in their
own and the country's interests. The
hon, member for East Assiniboia (Mr.
Turriff) said that he had several hun-
ched of these voters in his constitu-
ency, I have no doubt of it, Perhaps
that is the reason he is here.
I have been surprised at the argu-
ment which has been brought up here
day after day in regard to the greater
number of homestead entries made
tinder Liberal rule compared with
those made twenty ears ago under
Conservative rule, Surely there are
not many persons in Canada who clo
not know that this is the result of the
wave of settlement which has .been
travelling westward in Canada and
the United States for a hundred years.
Take my native county of Halton,
where more than four -scorn years ago,
under the rule of the old Family Com-
hpact, two hundred settlers are said to
ave • taken up homesteads in the
da
rasingle
township of rsquesin� inday,
and where, under the rule of the pres-
ent Liberal government, not one
homestead has been taken up in ten
years, simply because there were none
to take. Does this prove that the land
policy of the old. Family Compact was
wiser or better than that of the pres-
ent Liberal government? Certainly
not, but it does prove the utter ab-
surdity of this homestead argument.
Twenty years ago, when the Con-
servatives were in power, there were
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expenses and leave a clear profit of $10
an acre. I was delighted when I
found men placed in this condition.
I said to myself : What a glorious
heritage ; what wonderful opportuni-
it is to be a Canadian farmer's son at dente when drivingover the country
the present day. But when I examin-
ed more closely, I became somewhat
discouraged. I saw land, the very
best and choicest of this good land,
which the government had practically
given away to their friends for a dol-
lar an acre, three or four years ago,
being resold at $8 and $10 and in some
cases I was told at $15 and $20 an
acre. I saw the influence of the com-
pany and the millionaire and the
monopolist everywhere, and the in-
fluence 'of the poor man nowhere.
The poor man or the farmer's son
could buy no good land from the gov-
ernment at a dollar an acre. More, a
great deal of the good land seemed to
be taken up with the reserves. I pre-
sume that the Conservative govern-
rrient of old times was greatly to
blame for this. However, we find it
in that condition at present, and it is
the present time that we are concern-
ed with. I found Indian reserves,
Doukhobor reserves, Galician reserves,
Mennonite reserves, school -land re-
serves, forest reserves, wood -lot re-
serves, ranching reserves, Canadian
Pacific Railway Co'y reserves, Hud-
son's Bay Company reserves, Temper-
ance Colonization Company reserves,
and, last but not least, Saskatchewan
Valley Land Company reserves, and
so on. But there was one reserve
that I looked for in vain, and that was
a reserve of good land to provide
homes and farms for our young and
growing Canadian farmers' sons.
Again, the homesteads seemed to be
under some peculiar influence or spell.
The Minister of the interior explained
to us the other evening, when we
were at the estimates, this matter of
blanketing. He explained it very
clearly—•I do not think he kept any-
thing back. I think he world like to
remedy this evil. When I was out
there I found it a great evil and a
very difficult one to overcome. I was
disgusted with the mismanagement,
or worse, that I saw on every side.
The Minister of the Interior may not
be to blame for that, but there is no
doubt a great evil there to overcome.
You may drive for miles over these
Doukhobor reserves with out seeing
a dwelling or any sign of a home.
These Doukhobor and Galician re-
serves seem to be of immense extent
and to occupy the very, best and
choicest land, I should judge that permanently benefitted, Imagine the
the Ioukhobors have land not only stimulation to settlement that would
reserved. for themselves and their have been caused by building high
children, but also for their children's level traffic bridges at such points as
children. It has been stated in this Battleford, Prince Albert, Saskatoon,
House, and I believe the statement is The 1�lbow, and other places. Yet
absolutely correct, that in three years sufficient money has been spent by
from now there will not be a single the government on immigration each
first-class free homestead in the whole y ear to build six of these high level
of our fertile belt that will be avail -bridges and they have nothing to
able for a Canadian farmer's son. show for it but the diminished area of
Surely it is bad enough that the our fertile belt, the blocking of settle -
future homes of our children should be anent by vast reserves and an increase
' rr rs, The foreigners now in
for nothing, butit of fo
per e T
iv strangers t i
given to gg g
is even worse when we consider that our country should be treated kindly
money bonuses have to be paid to in- and considerately and if their friends
duce these strangers to accept these in Russia or central Europe wish to
homes and that the money comes out join thein at their own expense let
of the packets of the Canadian people. them do so, but the interests of our
No person bonuses or even pays the own ehillren must not be forgotten.
which lies between Long Lake and the
Prince Albert branch of the Canadian
Pacific Railway where homesteads
have been applied for by agents and
locaters who have not settled on the
land and never intend to, A search
in the land office at Regina will reveal
the alarming condition that there are
from three to half a dozen applications
for cancellation filed against these
vacant homesteads, and most, of these
applications are also by these same
locaters who further prolong the time
of the actual settler acquiring them.
It is to be hoped that at an early date
some policy will be inaugurated to
save these lands and make them avail-
able for the actual settlers."
Here is an extract from a letter
written by Mr. Jas. Clinkskill, a mer-
chant in Saskatoon;
"There are thousands of homesteads
at present held by real estate agents
for purposes as indicated above. You
can travel over township after town-
ship where every homestead accord-
ing to land office records is taken up,
and not a person in evidence. Action
cannot be taken too soon to overcome
the situation which is acute."
I may say that I have travelled over
the country myself between Long
Lake and the Prince Albert branch of
the Canadian Pacific Railway, and I
found the conditions, so far as I was
able to judge, exactly as they are des-
cribed in Mr. Lennox's letter. Now I
would say of the Doukhobors, that, so
far as I can see, in due time they will
make very good settlers. But the
massing of these foreigners in solid
blocks in the midst of vast reserves, is
a mistake, or worse. It
keeps upthe
cleavage between the settlers, bocks
and bars the entry of other settlers,
and is a positive injury to these people
themselves. The government spends
hundreds of thousands of dollars an-
nually to bring in immigrants. Now
it appears to me that if part of the
millions that have been spent in this
way had been used to develop the
country, to construct main roads,
bridges, &c„ more and better settlers
would have gone in. The massing of
foreigners in solid blocks would have
been prevented, the government would
have had something to show for the
vast sums which they have expended,
and the country would have been
fare of an eastern Canadian father's Where are they to get homes +when
son svherr ho goes to the west. "i me thea grow ftp ? Are they to berome
1 � 1 should not our farllrers' sons got some servants of I1Oukhobors and tialicians
similar advantage to those which in a land, which we, their fathers in
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BANK OF IIAMILTON
WINGHAM.
CAPITAL PAID UP $ 2,445,000.00
RESERVE FUND 2,445,000.00
TOTAL ASSETS 20,000,000.00
HON. WM. GIBSON — President
J. TURNBULL, Vico-Pres. & Gen. Manager
H, M. Watson, Asst. Genn. Manager.
B. Willson, Inspector.
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Special Deposits also received at current
rates of interest.
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Fancy Lace Colllars, very long tab, the most fashionable
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Fancy Chiffon Collars, white or black, trimmed with silk
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20c each.
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15c each.
LADIES' TiES.
Fancy Lace Ties and Fancy Silk Ties, new shades. Also
Fancy Lace for making Ties, popular shade, 20e per yard.
We have the New Scotch Plaid String Ties for Ladies,
25c each,
LADIES' BELTS.
Plain and Fancy Leather Belts 25c to 500
Black and Colored Silk Belts 25c to 500
White Embroidered Belts 25c to 35c
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