The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times. TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1926. AN ASPECT OF IMMIGRATION.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1926, Page 2

The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times. TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1926. AN ASPECT OF IMMIGRATION.

The movement: to place itngiisn unmigrants erf the better sort on Canadian soil, according to thoughtful article in an American magazine, promises

some interesting and ini]>ortant results. The plan has the sanction of both Governments, which arc lending aid lo its furl hern nee. The intending settler l ' are accorded a most favourable rate of transportation,' and after landing in Canada, are in a measure in the hands of Dominion or Provincial authorities, who will see that the new citizen* to lie are put in a position to begin life under auspices superior to those enjoyed by the average pioneer, and with chances of success beyond those hoped for or in the main realised by newcomers in a strange land. The number of English immigrants, compared with the Ktrciam of imigrunts that until recently flowed into the United States will not lie large to begin with. It is believed that once the experiment shows results the example will encourage a much larger voluntary and independent migration. Canada, it is averred, is choice in her selection and admission of immigrants. She wants more people, hut she reserves tho right to say who they shall he. She is taking a lesson from her neighbor to the south.—the- United States—where an unlimited influx of aliens did not always make for better citizenship. Canlula prefers to huilil surely and safely. She can handle, according to conservative estimates over 'two hundred thousand immigrants a year. This applies to oversen entrants. There is no limit to the number of United States incomers that can he taken care of, for theso demand no attention. They take ear© of themselves, anil require neither assimilation or supervision. To the ordinary American transferring and setting up his Lares and Penates in any Canadian Prohiueo, it is merely ax though ho had moved from one state to another. The western Provinces iare particularly interested in a larger American migration, and reports are that during the coining year the advantages of Dominion farm lands fire to ho emphasised anew in the United States. This propaganda, if such it may he called, will meet with no opposition on the American side of the lino. As the late President Harding said in his Vancouver address. “'The American departing to begin a new home in Canada goes with the God speed of his neighbors.” The.v realise that he is making a move that Folds many oportilnities of material betterment. It is idle to speculate on the limit of population that Canada will he able to sustain in comfort. Many years will pass liefore the minimum or maximum can be determined even theoretically. This much is certain. .By far the greater proportion of English speaking people in the world will he found on the North American continent. Witnessing what has already occurred in the United States, and that which is now only beginning in Canada, one need not despair as to the future of the English tongue, customs, laws and civilisation.