Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-08-03
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the unequal distribution of wealth. o
the 81 100000 of inhabitants of the uni.
ted kingdom there are only about $780,.
600 land holders. Out of population
OF 81 100000 there are 25,000,000 wht
may be said to subsist on manual labor
OF nearly all these it is true that each
days bread for themselves and theil
families must depend upon each days
| work.
We can imagine what distress must
prevail among them when they are
thrown cut of employment or aside by
sickness. In 1868, 1,C00,000 of people
in the united kingdom were receiving
permanent relief as paupers, and ,OOO,-
OOO more temporary relief.
vi the last large number were skill
ed workmen. The number of those re-
quiring aims is said to have increased
since that time, so that it is estimated
that in 1870 one-tenth of the population
of the united kingdom were receiving
more or less aid rs paupers.
We have present and practical Illus
tration of the comparative value of En-
glish and American institutions in the
slow and halting progress which has
oOci AauC uy tiic DoiniiIlou VI tdiisiust
in comparison with that of the United
States. -st.5 t-
L do not propose to weary my audi
ence by entering upon the examination
of statistics, but it is instructive to OBJ
serve the difficulty which Canada has
experienced in inducing immigrants to
settle within her borders, In 1869, a
special and earnest effort was made in
the dominion to encourage immigration
The province of Ontario made free
grants of lands to Immigrants, and Off
cred the the protection of homestead.
law, but we learn by official reports that
out of $1,000 immigrants who came into
the province, 10000 passed through
into the great Northwest Of
our own country to settle along the
line of that inner-oceanic thoroughfare,
to the completion of which one of your
own distinguished citizens has recently
brought his ability and resources. The
province of Quebec, wishing to encour-
age the settlement of its crown lands,
passed laws putting the rights of the
in every respect on the same
footing with those of the native. We
are told, however, that the only result
of this has been to induce few natives of
French descent to migrate little farther
into the woods. The Secretary of State
at Ottawa addressed circular letters to
the Governors of the different provin-
ces in 1869, asking their cooperation
In some scheme to encourage immigra-
ton. @
The Governor of New Brunswick |
declined engaging in this enterprise on
The ground that the attention of that |
province was now directed toward |
some plan for keeping its own young men
1t home.
The instincts of immigrants into this |
country are commonly sound as to the
places where they will settle, and they
will settle, and they can generally be
rusted to go where they find cordial
Welcome, equal rights before the law and
Institutions favorable to the advance
nent of their fortunes and the fortunes
If their children.
have now sufficiently illustrated the
unnatural and injurious character of
hat system from which our fathers sep
rated us as nation. 1t is unnecessary
% dwell upon the prosperity which we
laye enjoyed under a different system.
You are familiar with it and are your
elves a part of it.
An American who visits Europe for a
ew weeks finds on his return to his own
changes that surprise him.
What a debt of gratitude we owe to
hose fathers whose memory we honor
his day for rolling off from our backs
s well as from their own the burden of
he old aristocratic system. 1t is to them
Te are indebted that they did not permit {
he current of our history to wander ]
way into the artic ATTITUDES of cold and
arkness and desolation; and directed it
Ike the Mississippi into broad regions
f fertility and sunshine, through
nightly empires of light and plenty, eX-
anding and pouring on and on until it
hould lose itself in an ocean of perpet-
al summer and perpetual peace: and
that debt of gratitude we owe to AL /,
nightly God for putting into the hearts !,
f our fathers the inspiration of their no
lie thought. ---lla- t
What weight of obligation rests upon {
S to transmit unimpaired to posterity :
he fair inheritance which We have re-
eived. To this end let us apply every
here the test which our fathers applied.
In regard to all schemes, all institl-
ons, all Legislation, upon which our
erdict may be asked, let us make the \
lquiry; are they adapted to promote i
le common good? If this question can
c answered favorably, let us give them
ur cordial support. If unfavorably,
u us fight them to the end. If we con-
nue. faithfully to apply this principle,
nr institutions will be as lasting as the I
rineiples of human nature upon which
icy are founded.