accumulated a little capital he buys land or a city tenement. Your
Canadian educates his children, clothes them a little better, moves
into a better house. When the foreigner buys a block, he moves his
whole family into one room in the basement and does the janitor and
scrubbing and heating work himself or forces his women to do it for
him. When the Canadian buys a block, he hires a janitor, an engineer,
a scrub woman, and if he moves into the block, he takes one of the best
apartments. It does not take any guessing to know which of these two
will buy a second block first--especially if the foreigner lives on
peanuts and beer, and the Canadian on beefsteak and fresh fruit. Nor
does it take any guessing to know which type stands for the higher
citizenship--which will make toward the better nation.


IV

The question is--will Canada remain Canada when these new races come up
to power? And Canada need not hoot that question; or gather her skirts
self-righteously and exclusively about her and pass by on the other
side. The United States did that, and to-day certain sections of the
foreign vote are powerful enough to dictate to the President.

Take a little closer look at facts!

Foreigners have never been rushed into Canada as cheap labor to
displace the native born, so they have not, as in great American
industrial centers, lowered the standard of living for Canadians. They
have come attracted by two magnets that give them great power: (1)
wages so high they can save; (2) land absolutely free but for the
ten-dollar preemption fee.