DISTRESSING STATE OF AFFAIRS IN THE North-West TERRITOY
A Warning to Intending Emigrants

A correspondent – a native of Inverness – writes as follows regarding the attitude taken up by the Scottish Highlander in connection with the emigration of crofters and others to the North- West territory:-your opposition to emigration from Scotland IS justified by the fact that more destitution exists on this Continent than ever was experienced in Scotland or England, I will give you facts which probably you have not heard in Inverness ,

During the last eleven months there were in the United States 605 banks which closed their doors; seventy- four rail way companies went into the hands of receivers in the same time; and a proportionate number of smelters’ manufactories went to the wall, Such is the deplorable state of the renowned Mackinley protected Republic,

There are over three-million of able-bodied working men at present out of employed in this country. Thousands of families are confronted with starvation and would have succumbed to famine, were it not for the kind action of the philanthropic disposed.

Yet the Tories will promote and encourage emigration to the North-West Territory, where it is 50 and 60 degrees below zero for many months of the year.

A crofter can live six months in the Highlands for what he would pay at the Rocky Mountains for a coon-skin overcoat – which almost everybody must get in Colorado, far less in the North-West territory.