Mr. F. A. Acland, a member of the editorial staff of
the Toronto Globe, wrote some very interesting letters on the
western situation at about this time. These letters were
incorporated in a booklet "The Canadian West“, a Government
publication, which was quite widely distributed. Since hr.
Acland reported his visit to father's farm fairly accurately
we take the liberty of inserting his article.

THE MEN WHO MAKE THE WEST

A Qypioal Settler from over the Border.

Dundurn, Sask., June 18.--I came here from Saskatoon
with a Saskatonian friend for no other purpose than to see a
well-known settler formerly from Minnesota. Dundurn is about
twenty-five miles south of Saskatoon. It has no pretensions
to size, nor, I fancy, any expectations that it will ever be a
metropolis. Still there are a couple of elevators here, a
branch of the Northern Bank, and several well—equipped stores,
and there are many settlers around.

A few years ago this settler was a member of the State

Senate of Minnesota, He is at present not only farming, but

is engaged in the lumber business, and is besides agent for
several American manufacturers of agricultural implements. we
found him in his office, hard at work, but in no way averse to
spending an hour in the discussion of his own experiences in
his recently adopted country. Bit by B13 he unfolded to us

the story of his life, and expounded his system of ethics.

"The Senator," I should say in the first place, is a
German by birth and speaks English with a marked accent, though
apressing himself always in terms rather above than below
the normal standard in conversation. He is big and burly, as
befits a German who has lived on the land all his life. some
of his sons and daughters are married and settled around him at
andurn, and others of his children are young enough still to
attend the local school. Of the home habits of this German-
American-Cansdian farmer one may gather something from the
books and papers that were plentifully scattered about. The
Literary Digest and the weekly edition of The London Times are
not found in the parlor of every farmhouse in Ontario. He
moreover, reads them carefully.

"It was about 1900,“ "the Senator" said, ”that I first
began to think about Canada. I had seen the exhibits of the
Canadian western Provinces at our State fairs, and I became
interested. Others of our people were interested, too, and
very soon there was a movement on foot to send a delegation into
Canada to make a report on the country. The Canadian Govern-
ment and the railways were, of course, arranging a good many
such trips, without cost to the visitors from the other side.
One of my neighbors was always talking to me about the country
nrnunfl samantan. We had a son settled in that country. and he