The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2019-10-22
issued: 1912-09-11
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note: » EIGHT PAGES SO CENTS A MONTH 9& CLASSIFIED ADS WORD ■VOL. 11 NELSON. B. C. WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1912 Irrigated Canada Resembles Garden of Eden SPEND TOO MUCH ON EDUCATION Should Marry Boys and Girls and Send Them to Canada (By Dally News'Leased Wlro.> LONDON, Sept. lO.—At Dundee at the tpeetlng of the British association Sir W. Wlllooeks redd a paper on "Irrigated Ciinndn." irrigation and marriage, he said, were inseparable; children In towns were a source of expense, on Irrigated forms Ihey were a source of wealth. lOilher Mormonlsm made Brlgham Young turn bis thoughts to irrigation or irrigation turned his thoughts to Mormonisin. The young "unmarried man had* not heen a success on the fnrm. The garden of EdenwuB an Irrigated farm with wild alfalfa, fruit trees and cattle, just as lit Irrigated Canada, and Irrigated Canada would have claimed the garden of Eden but for the fall. (Laughter.) If the money spent for expensive schools'* for bnyp and girls were-put up as dowries for tbe girls and tlio boys were taught practical farming mid then married to the girls aiiij'sent to the Cnnadlan farms with a moderate capital there would no longer he In sight- vouhg men hanging about for add jobs with all the professions crowded and so many militant suffragettes making t-trltaln the laugh- in' Block of the world. Tbe suffragist worry was the price that had to he paid for spending; so much money upon extravagant and painful education for boys while the girls hnd no dowries provided-for them. lie expressed great hopefulness with regard to the future of irrigated Canada, though he thought. the people, like the true sons of a nation of shop- j keepers, rather over advertised their . ftttrar-tlflpg^ Nijuulfiou hfld say_ed Jjilp "hiiti'otiJfrom.that spirit 100 years ago and he thanked tied thnt the Oermnn was.rising into power and that ■eally formidable, It would wcau Canada as well as the country from the harlot spirit in commerce against which li Isaiah pronounced t…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0384725
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Co.
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text