The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-04-26
Atlantic and Pacific. Such are the sold facts

Atlantic and Pacific. Such are the sold facts
of the situation, and they are sufficiently at
tractive to render garnising unnecessary"
The men who went to Australia knew all that
the Inquirer now tells of the land Glowing
with milk and honey far out towards the
it, They might have had enough to take them
out there, but they had nothing wherewith to
make start towards getting shelter and sup
port for themselves and their families. few
hundred dollars was needed, outside Of their
passage, to make this start, but they did not
have it. It was a choice between their own
counarv and no announcement whatever for
the future and New South Wales and nearly a
certainty of work, and who shall charge them
with acting unwi ely or UNI atriotieally III
choosing the latter Certainly Australia cam
not begin to compare with Arizona, or Texas,
or New Mexico in attractiveness for the immi-
grant, and we have vet to hear OF the man
looking for q place to settle in and cultivate
the soil, leaving America to look for it in Aus
tralia. But with these persons under con-
sderatiOn it was not choice of locations, but
a choice between work ana idleness, between
plenty and want. between manly independents
and pauperism. Under what circuu stances
might this inning alton to Australia have been
prevented and all this wealth been saved to
us Uilder the influence OF a healthy financial
system trade would have regained its prestine
would have become equal if not inadequate, to
the power of supply, and the development OF
the great resources OF the far west would have
forced itself on our national legislators as an
imperative duty. But even without this state
of things, in the midst of the hard times, it
would nave been very easy to prevent this
American exodus. Had Congress, recognize
ing the duty of the Government in the pre-
mises adopted some plan by which the able
bodied worthless workmen OF the Eastern and
Middle States could be assisted to establish
themselves in this land flowing with milk and
honey thatthe Philadelphia Inquirer talks Of
these men who have gone to Australia would
now he achieving independence for themselves
and contributing to our national wealth and
greatness. 1t would have cost the Government,
some millions of dollars to put such plan a!
| the National Homestead Company, referred to
| that the capital would not have been more thar
r-paid We cannot regard the immigration
to Australia as anything else than natlona
misfortune, and one that might have beef
averted. 1t is the logical result of the policy
of contraction and general neglect of the PEG
ple's interests so long pursusd by the Govern
| ment, and which can be pursued to ru n. Blu
that it will stop short of the latter point, VI
| feel assured. We have reason to hope that thu
good sense of the people will triumph ov
mere partisan feelings and move them to cleo
men who will be representatives of the peOpl'
rather than OF the p .rty. When this comes t
pass we may look for thousands coming to tn
country and none going away from it, at leas
| to save tn InselveS FROM want, and for tn
Government taking paternal and just interes
| in aiding the landless and homeless, but indus
lrious, ones TO obtain lands and homes.