State-Aided Emigration Made Self-Supporting, 3 Letters (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: early adapted, and should dispose them to promote a systematic scheme of emigration as proposed. It may be justly regarded as a providential circumstance of great value to the Australian colonies, to have at this crisis of their development a kindred people capable of supplying a large surplus population. This state of things may not last long: how long, no one can tell. Epidemics, wars, or political changes may any day stay, or divert this overflow of population, and throw back the Australian colonies on Asiatic and African races. If so, then is it not prudent for the Australian colonies to take advantage of the present favourable disposition of the Home G-overnment, and divert, in part at least, to their shores the stream of emigration now setting so strongly towards the American continent? The Right Honourable The Earl Op Derby. 28th January, 1883. My Lord,? Your Lordship's accession to office was hailed with satisfaction by all who believe that a comprehensive scheme of emigration is the only remedy for the evils that distract Ireland; and I trust you will pardon my again bringing forward a scheme of self-supporting emigration which I submitted to your Lordship in the form of a pamphlet in 1881. In it I pointed out the true cause of disaffection in Ireland, and I hope demonstrated that nothing but a state-aided system of emigration by families, if not districts, "automatic in its action and elastic in its application," would meet the case, and bring about the permanent pacification of Ireland; and I indicated how I believed it could be made self-supporting; insisting on the essential importance of this principle in dealing with a great excess of population, the pressure of whichwas the source of sedition in Ireland and growing discontent in England. ' ...