New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-01-28

says, 'tit will be scarcely possible to in
duce landlords to grant leases Of two o.
three acres of land" and the premie,
gave no encouragement to the "householc
suffrage which would, indeed, without
the house, be about equal to the empty
donation of the land and mule spoken Of
So the English paper, the Nail, adds:
There is every chance of Canada, OF
some other of our colonies, getting thai
labor which the home farmer seems to re
gard with 80 much Indifference.
Joseph Arch, then, as the representa-
tive Of this labor, asks ah interview will
MIR. Gladstone. to know whether the gov
eminent can do anything to arrest this
''exodus of !aborers;' this ''whoiesale
emigration" To these propositions. Nh.
Gladstone made no published response.
That this organized movement is prob,
able is shown by the immense increase Of
the British Immigration into the United
States within the past few Years. The
British government should, therefore. pre-,
pare for it, and if nothing can be done to
give these people suffrage and soil at
home to so direct this immigration as to
most promote the welfare OF the empire.
It is therefor that we now address our.
selves to the British premier. and desire
his attention to the following considera.
tons:
I. England is a large importer Of the
cereals. She should. therefore. SO direct
this emigration that their product shall
be returned to the mother market in the
largest measure. That portion Of English
labor sent into the wheat fields of Mime.
sofa or Of some parts Of Canada will do
very well. No: so. however. with that
portion which is sent to make Indian corn
north Of 46' north latitude. Not only is
this staple less abundant in this region.
but the extreme distance OF England sen-
ders its commerce Improbable.
The culture Of Indian corn in the true
region Of that cereal is from Illinois, Ohio
and Missouri to and including Texas and
Louisiana. It is SO much nearer England
that corn would be remunerative crop to
the laborer and would be cheapes to ti.s
consumer than at present.
We address similar argument In Be-.
half Of English immigration into the
cotton growing region. The same labor
that will harvest five hundred bushels In
dian corn, worth, at twenty cents bushel,
one hundred dollars--say twenty pounds
will readily produce five bales Of cotton.
worth five hundred dollars, or one hun.
dred pounds. With this increase Of corn
and cotton England will feed her mouths
and mills much better and cheaper than
at present.
2. There are two considerations which.
to the clear mind of the Prime Minister.
have but to be stated without argument
First-Should England divert her immi.
grafton from her own colonies?
In the first place, an immigrant who has
no home nor suffrage is as near a free
agent as can be found He will go where
he chooses, and apparently he prefers to
go to the United States, where he finds
free soil and free suffrage. There is, be-
sides, beneath his much patched coat, and
especially under the well quilted bodice
Of his wife, a hope that some little
bullet headed boy or bright eyed girl may
come to something more in a republic
than where "the laborer is regarded as
too much the slave of the soil" So they
will come to the United States any way
Is it not wise, then, for the British gov
eminent to advise them to what part Of
the United States they should come to 40
best for themselves and for England?
We do not care to. do more than allude
to the distance of India from England.
We only say that Russia is entrenched in
Khiva. with an open line of supply from
the Volga and the Caspian, by way Of the
Amoor, to the borders Of the Punjaub it.
self. We draw no inference from posi-.
bilities: but this we do say: That q tree
commercial intercourse between the great
est manufacturer Of cotton and the great.
est produce Of cotton-an intercourse
in which English gold is paid out to Eng
fish speaking people. and English gods
furnished to a people who have been
reared to thu use Of English goods, is
basis of trade that can never be broken.
unless by the willful acts of the dealers
themselves. This corn is then to be
grown and this cotton baled in an Eng.
lish interest. It is to be paid for in Brit.
ish goods and gold. 1t is to be conveyed
in British ships. Should such an 'oppor.
tunity Of commercial and industrial pro.
pagandism be disregarded by England.
We scarcely notice the objection that
England should draw her grain supplies
from her own colonies. She draws them
now from Russia. France and the United
States. Her spirdles reyoive with New
Osleans cotton. Her people employ the
slave grown coffee Of Brazil and the slave
grown sugars of Cuba. England is cos.
She is hive into which is
gathered the products OF every field; but
she does not consume these products with
out return. She imparts to them the
value Of her skill. she imprints upon them
the min. mark of her knowledge and sends
them forth to relieve the wants and slim.
ulate tie industries of the world.
We therefore invite the attention Of the
Prime Minister OF England to the policy
Of directing the labor emigration OF Eng.
land to the valley Of the Mississippi river.