Sauk Rapids frontierman. [volume] (Sauk Rapids, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1860, 1857-06-04
! sAIJK RAPIDsI M T. Thursday MORNING 5, 1857.

"l ofIreland. Five hundred thousand per
sons il the last great famine, and she ugh
u the calamity excited the worlds com.
misseration, III q comlnercia! view the
victims were not. missed. Nor we're the
poor Highlanders ofScetland wko were
driven from the country 70 make room
4 for sheep. N England and ireland es-
| Pecially, the great evil cctrpia;ned, Of BY
Istatssman was SURPLUS population.
i Thousands W. laborers could obtain 40
employment, many n wheta sought te-
\ fage il poorshouses. BIT the discogary
|of gold il California aad Austrfaslli !
turned old theories ofpoIiticai scoilosny,
by inducing emigration, and thus en-
hancing the commercial value Of men.
Now they are in demand throughout
Great Britain, and the policy Of her
statesmen is to check rather shan to en-
courage emigration.
Men were never underyaued in this
country as in Europe, yet the rapid set
tIement Of the West, by drawing off the
population Of the old States in thousands
annually, gives those who renan behind
a higher estimate of their value. Some
Of our Eastern contemporaries, we no.
! tice, deprecate the very general tenden-
cy toward emigration to the new States.
The New-B Bedford Mass" Mercury"
Of late date, laments the departure of
the mechanics Of that thriving town for
the West, Why should they 60 ; 1'ne5
arc well off where they are, asa IN al
probability will not improve shelr condi- |
tion by change Of residence. Fossil
bly, but the thing is to make them be-
Iieve it. The great majority will not,
and they judge correctly. There is al
ways more or less hardship and nisfor-
tune incidental to emigration, but where
one loses, a hundred will be gamers by
the change. The farmer Obtains cheap
and good land for himself and fer his
children the machanic. abundance ef|
employment at higher wages, with oppor-
tunity of securing competence aud
often a fortune the merchant and the
capitalist large field for their enterprise.
With such Inducements to emigration
as the West holds out, it viii not only
continue, but greatly increase from year
to year. Exhortatious and depre cations
will not avail to hold it even in momen~,
tary check. ...a..s.
The wonderful! developments Of indus
try and commerce during the last few
years have completely set aside the
old economic dogmas, that population
always tends 10 outrun their capacity
for the production of food, and that in
the most favored stages Of. civilization
the masses, by an irreversible decree Of
fats, are doomed TO poverty and misery.
These libeIs upon the justice and wisdom
Of Providence were honestly put forth
by the old school Of political leconomists,
and their hopeless conclusions seemed
to be warranted by the condition of
the world at the time they wrote, es~
pecia,Iy that Of England and France, to
which their observations were chiefly
l. h.
strueted before the era of railroads.
before steamships had crossed the At
lantic and all other oceans--betore the
electric telegraph was heard uf--before
the discovery of d thousand wonderful
Inventions, including the cotton-gin, the
spinning jenny and the harvester had
lbeen perfected for the abridgement Of
labor and the rapid production of wealth
before Science had been summoned
from the closet ofthe student to take it's
place as u regular and most efficient as
sistant in the manufactory, the mechan
lic's shop and the farmers feld--at a
time when the steam-engine even, which
has since wrought such miracles in the
| field of manufactures, was an unsoiyed
problem, and when no one dreamed Of
1.-The exhaustless treasures hidden in the
soil of California and Australia, whose
discovery was destined to giyesa
liant to industry. commerce and
ton, that has 10 parallel il the b.
i Of the race. MI
i who now apprehends the
Iof large portion Of NJ
they will long lasek AT asly
.l,ha1 may he. .nsssssssaT laslrs
,IItial vell-bsiag old Palh'