Alter providing his family
Alter providing his family
The farm laoourer ana ins iamny get a nassaee to Australia or new Zealand, and the parish at once saves u a year in being relieved from their maintenance. Now, as an emigrant, the iaoourer at once gets constant;, mm employment. with food m abundance, he finds that he has wherewithal to buy him a good coat, instead of the smock frock he used to wear, and to supply his children with decent clothing, instead of letting them run about in rags. He sends Home an order ior & good auantitv ot oroad ciotn. and mm order actually sets the loom of his old fellowpauper to work, and takes him. or helps to take him. from out of the workhouse. Thus the emigration of one man relieves the parish ot the burden of two paupers, furnishes food and employmentTo national profit derived from , of our surplus poor, aiding as colonists supplying gold, raw stames. c.i to nroduce imiiqs.ii. exports to the amount of J each instead of o each. wmcn tnev aided to ©rocittce wnust tnev remained our halfemployed possiblepaupers and surplus poor.National annual emigration profit I apprehend that any one conversant with the subject,would can tins estimate oi annual ” immigration rront ” a very low estimate. But looking even at these figures, recollecting tnat tnev are ngures oniv ior one Tear, tnat tne emigration movement more or less has been in operation ior mrm vears: ana, tnat alter an. ngures can crive us oniv a faint idea of the real profits of emigration inasmuch as emsration is our great national saietv vaive, witnout wmcn our social and political institutions might not endure anotner decade.