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cat! hk • €.ion tfaie , coming id Goat nd ulto.survey rking in olambia er two interest railroad 11 probed ran r thence cros-i of the ad over 5 down across On the onaider-m the ave also fork of changes been anadian iange of rtended to the through already he trailon Saturday nfght. The aame night one of the Jew capitalists robbed his fellow capitalists, a half dozen or more of thern, while •leaping in the shed, of all their spare cash, and a couple o! watches and rings, and cleared out. The Calgary police were after him all day Sunday, but failed to find him. The ride to Mcleod and back—about *250 miles—of these 21 people was free. Lo-day (Monday) this crowd were put on the train to Red Deer (some 10 or 11 of them), there being “passes’' for 21 in all : aud the rest remain here in the immigration shed waiting for the report of their fellows on the country , between Calgary and Red Deer. These people have been picked up in the slums of Chicago ; they are being “steered by a couple of clever fellows, who do not care how much railway riding they do over this country at the expense of the Canadian government, as long as their salaries go on as “leaders’' of the movement. They are socialists of a bad type. Their agents say they have done some farming somewhere (hs is not very definite) but no one who bus seen them believes they are anything above the status of huxters who. instead of farming will settle down to peddling in the towns. They are having a great free trip over the continent, as it coats them no more for food while travelling than if they were peddling in Chicago. People here are determined that the government which brought them here shall take them back. There are too many of this stamp already in the country. People say the government can get lots of settlers from Ontario and the other provinces if they will bring them here ‘free,’ and they want to know what there is about those Germans or Hungarian Jews, picked up in Chicago, to justify the government in making pets of them and going to enormous public expense to settle them in a country of farmers where they are uot wanted
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Fort MacLeod Gazette
Fort MacLeod, Alberta, CA
Fri, Jul 07, 1893
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