New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-11-07

of these English wOrkiDgHen are reany !"
come over this Fall To form cooperative COLO
mes, and are Only waiting for information o"
winch they can depend as Trustworthy. sew
er;l Englshmen, Members OF Parliament anu
leaders III pubic affairs, are now III this coun-
fry TO examine for themselves into the coh-
dition of its resources and probable lu-
tnre food supply. and the chances Tor
English farmers and wOrkngmen, ii they
emiprate. The Duke of Beaul orts OPINION,
nublished when he went home, as to the nope
lessness of English competition with the
American bread and meat supply, has quick
ened the movement of emigration to thls
country. Mr.. Caiid, one Of the highest author
tiles on such topics, states that One-half the
bread eaten in Great Britain is made from
foreign wheat and that while, ten years ago,
only one-tenth of the meat and dairy pro-
dnce used was of foreign yield, now more
than One-fOurth comes fIom abroad. lie cal
culates also that every man, woman and chlld
in Great Britain pays on an average rs per
annum to other countries for the necessarles
which support life.
These are facts which the dullest English
laborer can understand and solve promptly.
not become an Americana He and his children
by emigration change from consumers into pro-
ducers. These people are mistaken. however,
IN thinking that emigration to America Is all
that Is needed to better their condition or to
give them equal chances with the shrewd,
temperate American farmer. who is acclima-
ted and has known the mode of farming rom
his youth, and whose Object in life is to ele-
vate himself and his children. Their agents
and advisers now IN this country ought to
warn them that they must change their nab
its as well us their skies, or they VIII ina
competition with him as impossible when they
are on this side of the water as on that. De
foe, nearly two hundred years ago, alleged i'll
n political pamphlet that, while wages IN
England were higher than III any country in
Europe and work was more plenty, the rate OF
paupcrism was higher; and this, he says.
as due wholly to habits of drunken
"ness and extravaganza in the working classes.
4" An Englishmdn Will starvc and 20 in rags ON
"the same wages on which French or Dutch
"man will grow fat and leave his children in
"good condition. Our people spend half of their
"money in drink" Defoe's observations are
as true to-day as they were in 1904. The
present depression in English industries is due
not only to the occasional poor harvest or
outside causes, but to the steadily increasing
thriftless. unable condition of the labOrers,
sodden through perpetual soaking from their
cradles gin and beer. Out of tins has grown
the habit which now might be called natural
among English wOrSingmen OF sighting, or
rs they call it of scamping" their work.
The great cotton Industries of Manchester
have been ruined by this policy of dishonest
work. that was the sole reason of the success
of American muslins in the trade. Now. the
English farmer OF workIngmaD who comes
over here with the idea that 10 swill beer and
give the poorest work for the highest wages Is
the object OF life. will inevitably be pushed
down and out of the market even more quickly
than he has been at home. Probably in a
dryer climate, and with the variety and bun
dance of American food he will not feel the
physical necessity of heavy drinking, as at
home.
The emigration of farmers Is not limited TO
Englishmen. Among other colonists who will
be welcome for every reason are a company
of fifty herdsmen and dairywomen who re-
Gently arrived from Brittany to engage III
making butter and cheese after the mode
used in the Cotentin peninsula tor expectation
to France.