Women on the Prairie 



his comment on a scheme to get a milHon 

 immigrants a year for the next ten years, and 

 was pubhshed in The Grain Growers' Guide of 

 May 13, 1914. " In my judgment the settle- 

 ment of Western Canada during the last ten or 

 twelve years has been sufficiently rapid, and 

 this applies especially to Saskatchewan. . . . 

 I am not sure that a slight check for a while is 

 not desirable." " It seems to me important for 

 us to make sure we are treating those who are 

 already here as well as they should be treated, 

 before we allow ourselves to become inflamed 

 with any such desire as you formulate in your 

 proposal. Before all things, it is our duty to 

 make residence on the land more attractive than 

 it is at the present time." 



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