New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-10-02

IAGIfNH IND AMINO IN ~ bitL 3. IN.
Tie PaH MaH Gazette in recent issue pre-
diets that the stream Of emigration from Great
Britain to the United States, which received a
temporary check during the depressed condition
of trade in this country, VIII soon reach some
thing nearly approaching its former volume.
III promises 10 include, also, large proportion
OF lie class OF skilled woIlmcn rs well as
farmers aud agricultural laborers. Other Eng
hsh journals comment upon this outflow of
the best clas, of their working population, and
note with surprise the fact that they are all
Going TO the United States, aud not to any
British colony. \ VAGUE alarm is beginning
to show itself M ENGLAND like that which Mis-
si.sipDi planter feels at sight OF the first drops
o. The crevasse which is 10 undermine and ruin
his home. Appeals are made 20 their patriot
ism, and they are asked why, with millions Of
virgin soil awaiting cultivation under the
English flag. any emigrant should make him
self foreigner. colony OF tenant-famers
on the way to Texas is beset with remon-
strances and advised to go to Egypt or India.
OF course these piaintiye protests die out in
thin air. The difference of sixpence week
in wages. or few shillings in passage-money
would outweigh al windy loyalty to country
or queen in the mind of lab0rng man who
has n wife and children to provide for Nobody
can blame him. The subject for blame and won
der is the Government which thus TRANQUILITY
allows the blood which gives vitality to the
nation to be drained out of it, A little effort
and cheaper facilities in transportation would
turn the current of emigration to Canada or
Australia But no such effort is made. Moth
inc can be more incOmprehcnsible TO practi
cal Americans than the long-cOntinued neg
lect by England of her colonies. The only use
she has made of them hitherto has been ~
mich COWS to fattcn her children at home.
Heavy taxes have driven India into famine
more than once The Australian Colonies have
time and again, in resentment of neglect and
misrepresentation, been upon the verge of
separation from the mother country and SO
complete is her Indifference that no effort was
made to retain them. Now, England without
her colonies would he but fourthrate power
in Europc. and her frmest hold upon these
colonies as well as the spcediest means of
strengthening them would be to turn the emf
grafton of her working population into their
waste land instead of ours. If she neglecs
her own interest, however, it is not for US TO
complain.
There Is matter, however. about which
we should complain and which it behoovcs
us to set night. Our workshops, press
rooms and manufactures are filing up with
foreigners, while native Americans are
shut cut, and that by their own peo-
pie. The Trades Unions years ago linn
tied the number of apprentices to be
taken into each shop. The Sons of the owner
of the largest printing establishment in Phil
adelphia, for example, were not permitted to
learn their fathers trade, because the number
was full. The same rigor was observed in the
other trades. This was plan TO keep down
competition and to keep up wages, which
would have worked admirably if they could,
carrying out their policy. have built "a Chinese
wall about the country. But look at the
working of 1t. Last week one steamer brought
thirty skilled engineers to Philadelphia.
There is not shop nor foundry in that great
manufacturing centre in which the skilled
workmen are not largely foreigners. Mean
while American young men of the same
class starve by thousands as clerks, statesmen,
incompetent doctors or briedess lawyers. 1t