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.

In 1881 there were six hundred and sixty-seven Jews in Canada.

In 1901 there were sixteen thousand. To-day it is estimated there are
twenty thousand each in Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg. These Jews have
not gone out to the land. They have crowded into the industrial
centers reproducing the housing evils from which they fled the European
Ghetto. There are sections of Winnipeg and Montreal and Toronto where
the very streets reek of Bowery smells. When they go to the woods or
the land, these people have not the stamina to stand up to hard work.
Yet in the cities, by hook or crook, by push-cart and trade, they
acquire wealth. On the charity organization of the cities they impose
terrible burdens during Canada's long cold winter.

In one section of the western prairie are 150,000 Galicians. Of
Austrians and Germans--the Germans chiefly from Austria and
Russia--there are 800,000 in Canada, or a population equal to the city