f huts on the
prairie now had good frame houses, stables, stock, modern implements.
The story is told of one poor Russian who, when informed of the fact
that the land would be his very own, fell to the earth and kissed the
soil and wept. Such settlers make good on soil, whatever ill they work
in a polling booth. Except for his religious vagaries, the Doukhobor
Russian is law abiding. The same can not be said of the other Slav
immigrants. Crime in the Northwest, according to the report of the
Mounted Police, has increased appallingly. The crimes are against life
rather than against property--the crimes of a people formerly kept in
order by the constant presence of a soldier's bayonet run amuck in
Canada with too much freedom. And the votes of these people will in
twenty years out-vote the Canadian. These poverty-stricken Jews and
Polacks and Galicians will be the wealth and power of Canada to-morrow.
If you doubt what will happen, stroll down Fifth Avenue, New York, and
note the nationality of the names. A Chicago professor carefully noted
the nationality of all the names submitted in Chicago's elections for a
term of years. Three-quarters of the names were of nationalities only
one generation away from the Ghetto.

Man to man on the prairie farm, in the lumber woods, your Canadian can
out-do the Russian or Galician or Hebrew. The Canadian uses more
brains and his aggregate returns are bigger; but boned down to a basis
of _who_ can save the most and become rich fastest, your foreigner has
the native-born Canadian beaten at the start. Where the Canadian earns
ten dollars and spends eighty per cent. of it, your foreigner earns
five dollars, and saves almost all of it. How does he do this? He
spends next to nothing. Let me be perfectly specific on how he does
it: I have known Russian, Hebrew, Italian families in the Northwest who
sewed their children into their clothes for the winter and never
permitted a change till spring. Your Canadian would buy half a dozen
suits for his children in the interval. Your foreigner buys of
furniture and furnishings and comforts practically nothing for the
first few years. He sleeps on the floor, with straw for a bed, and he
occupies houses twenty-four to a room--which is the actual report in
foreign quarters in the north end of Winnipeg. Your Canadian requires
a house of six rooms for a family of six. When your foreigner has
accumulated a little capital he buys land or a