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been so systematically misrepresented as the great Canadian
North West, and nowhere have the wondrous advantages of
a century been so effectively hidden from the View of the intending
western emigrant. It seems strange that such a state of afl'airs
should have lasted for three fourths of a century, but when we take
into consideration the large monopolies, who were so deeply inter-
ested in keeping up this system of misrepresentation, we can more
fully understand the seemingly strange state of afl‘airs. The exist—
ence of large corporations depended upon this system of monopoly,
and monopoly in turn depended upon misrepresentation. and the
hiding of the wondrous wealth of this great country from the starv-
ing and overcrowded peasantry of Europe, and the enterprising
poor of Eastern America. ‘
But with the death of these monopolies the misrepresentation of
the Great North West has not ceased. On the contrary the work
has merely passed into the hands of shrewder and more unscrupu-
lous agents. Parties interested in emigration to other portions
of America, and complete apathy on the part of the Canadian gov-
ernment and oapatalists on the subject of emigration have com-

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