Speech #520113737

I will read it. notwithstanding what my friend the Senator from Tennessee has said. I confess I was astonished when I read this letter from Mr. Farrer. a distinguished subject of the Queen living in Canada. in relation to the immigration coming annually from that country to this. He says: I How large the exodus. as it is called. has become may be gathered from the Canadian blue books. At the census of 1881 the population of the Dominion was 4.325.000. At the census of 1891 it was 4.833.000. Between 1881 and 1891 the government reported the arrival of 850.000 emigrants from Europe. secured at a cost of $3.000.000. The natural increase may be put at 14 per cent. say 600.000 for the decennium. without counting that among the emigrants. Hence the population in 1891 ought to have shown a numerical Increase of at least a million and a half. whereas it was only 508.000. so that a round million of native and European born Canadians must have crossed the line. An invader who should overrun the country could not do worse than deport 100.000 of the choicest men and women every year. Annexation could not be expected to stop the exodus absolutely. for northern people will always turn their faces to the sun. but it would certainly diminish It by bettering the economic environment. I simply read this to show how many people are annually pouring across the line from the north into our States. by whom we might expect cholera to be brought. because Canada is taking no steps to prevent the importation of this disease. she is not taking any st ps. as I am informed. to prohibit the entry of vessels into her ports. and if all Europe is overrun with this disease and we lay an embargo around our entire coast. immigrants can still come to us through Canada.