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Excerpt from Manitoba and North West Territories
In the older countries the ever-increasing population renders exist ence daily more difficult, and men instinctively turn their thoughts to where they may settle upon land of their own, and escape from the wearying competition and strife for a bare living in which they have so long borne a part. They have heard, perhaps, in an indefinite way of distant lands which offer inducements to emigrants, but whilst they long to be there they hesitate, for the step they meditate is a serious one, and they want to 'be convinced that they are acting wisely in taking it.
Compare the two situations, and then decide which is the better. On the one hand a man is living in an older country, and with many of the advantages of civilization around him, the outcome of centuries of slow and steady progress. But his prospects are poor. Machinery is fast taking the place of labour 5 competition is bringing down the price of wages the grain fields of the far west are injuring farming in Europe he can hope to do nothing more than make a bare living there. He can indulge in no expectation of one day owning the house he lives in, nor can he look forward to a peaceful old age on land of' his own, surrounded by his family, looking upon his own possessions, knowing no landlord and recognizing no interference.
On the other hand, there awaits him on this side of the water, if he will but take it, an extensive farm of 160 acres of the most fertile land in the world, affording him a comfortable, prosperous and healthy existence, with all the necessaries and not a few of the luxuries of life. He may choose his own land he can select an open prairie, or a park-like tract, or he may settle on the banks of some river or lake which will afford him unlimited supplies of fish. Duck, geese, prairie chicken and rabbits also abound, and he can shoot what he wants.
II} but a brief year or two he will stand whence he can see his fields of grain stretching away in the distance, bending before the breeze. He will hear his cattle lowing in the pasture, and as he gazes upon the scene he will feel that he has acted wisely in coming over.
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