New-York daily tribune., 1851-07-30
British Monopoly and Emigration.


British Monopoly and Emigration.
We have already noticed the deductions
made by the leading journal of England
from the facts of the Irish Census, but this
has by no means exhausted the topic. The
Da,ly Ne,cs, commenting on the same facts,
reloices in the great number of those who
have fed from their native soil to escape
the horrors of starvation and pestilence.
This it regards as the joyful side of the
case. We give its words:
what will follow This great good. among 9th
ers-that the stagnant weight Of unemployed popn-
latiOn in these insulated realms is never likely again
10 accumulate TO the dangerous amount which there
was sometimes cause 10 apprehend that, IRON un-
foreseen revulsions In industry or foreign trade, II
might have done. natural vent Is now so thor.
ouehly opened and so certain 10 grow wider ana
clearer every day, that the overflow VIII pass OIL
whenever a moderate degree of pressure recurs.
Population, skill and capital, also, VIII no longer
wait in CONSERVATION till they are half spent with
watching and fear The way is ready. They VIII
silently shift their quarters when the competition or
depression here becomes uncomfortable. Every
family has already friends or acqualntances who
have gone before them over sea Socially our lnsu-
lation as people is proved, by the census OF 1851,
TO be at an end"
This is remarkable reason for self
graduation. Because millions of his fell
subjects have been driven into foreign
lands, the freeborn Briton may exult in cos
mopolitan delight that his social insulation
is at an end If he were wise he would
rather lament over the system which has
banished them and is working such harm to
his country. And he might lament still
more because in all the realm no body of
men considerable in numbers and influence,
is found proclaiming what it is that has
done and is doing this evil.
Our friends of Celtic origin dispute with
zeal and learning the justice of the praise
usually bestowed on the Anglo-Saxon race
They will not admit that it plays so great
part in the world as it loves to suppose. We
do not now seek to debate this question
with them, but when we consider the ex-
tent of the baneful as well as of the benef-
cent influence which England has exercised
on human affairs, we incline to believe they
are in the wrong. Looking at Ireland,
India, Canada, the West Indies, and even
at the United States, We behold the English
system everywhere tending to reduce man
to poverty, and retain him in subsection, in
order to build up great central aristocracy,
and monopolize the markets and the power of
the world And we say that none but a
race endowed with qualities in themselves
most precious, could have accomplished
work of such widespread and fatal perver-
sion.
The basis of the English system is land
monopoly Every precaution is taken by
the law to prevent the division of land, and
to hinder its exchange from one owner to
to another, so that it may be kept in the great
families and their greatness may be maintains
ed. Accordingly, until comparatively re-
cent date, agriculture in England was back
ward for the reason that the cultiv ators did not
own the land, while the owners drew from
il the utmost possible Of the means of luX-
ury and show. That constant and profitable
process of improving the soil and increas-
ing its fruitfulness which the tiller of his
own land always practices, was unknown.
The natural outlet of human labor and
energy is the land, in whose culture man,
by an unerring instinct, seeks to ameliorate
his condition. But in England he was ex-
cluded from the land, or allowed to labor
upon it only on the terms and at the pleas
ure of its aristocratic owners. And at the
same time all sorts Of other mOnopolies, such
as the monopoly of religion, of places under
government, of places as teachers, as doe
tors, as lawyers, as bankers, and 50 forth,
shut out the ardent and aspiring, those born
to bless their country and their race even ia
caring for their own interests, from every ca
reer calculated TO attract and employ them
usefully at home.
All this could have but one result, emi-
grafton. And this result, let it be remem-
bered, originated from single cause, land
monopoly There was abundance of land,
but it could not be cultivated, because the
extortions of the great people, who, in early
days, had stolen it ALL kept down and drove
away the cultivators, who would else have
accumulated means to till their land in the
best way, and would have remained to uli
it. And the best land was not cultivated
| at all for the same reason, since, In order TO