New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-09-17

| of ;,,m;crotion Rut take 1t, they who think thus
| are few in number, and that the crazb OF NanVe
Americanism has long since ceased to aiict you.
| Il u,oa mt only an injustice but q deluson and
| morooror suicidal one to the deluded. No people
has n natural right to place boundaries ana oar
m any portion of the earths surface against out
siders or withhold from them the privilege OF GILL
zenship should they care to claim 1t. and show cro-
| dentals without faint OF criminality Jealousy
excusivism will dwarf the growth and STINT 'he
resources of the most favored nation by forcing IT,
as It were to feed upon itself. For the larger the
population of country-provided 1t be free
Countrywide better it Is for every individual IN
habitant of it. and the man who does not know
this must have read the lessons of history WIN
scales upon his eyes fancy there are not IN my
such on your side of the Atlantic though on tnis
nearly all are So Incredible il may SEEM thcre
Is hardly an Enelishman. even of those cai'ed
statesmen who lots not believe that to get ria OF
these poor III etarians surplusage OF popua"n as
they conceive It's national gain, ana t1ihg 'o
be thankful for
Under such circumstances it might he supposed
that Won could have as many of these littleappre-
clated and ilrewarded toilers as You care to take
And 50 you can, by making an effort for an effort
| wonId be needed. YOu don't get them now IN any
great numbers variety of distractions standing n
the
entity of their finding heir wav unpoted. another
the far greater one from their being unasssted.
For. to repeat what l said in nv letter about the
farm laborer, his paying passage across the Atlantic
even the lowest-priced steerage and even but for
himself without thought of wife or children-were
the next thing to an impossibility. 1t would take
years of toll and cheese-paring economy with the
patience OF Job and the resolution of Hercules, to
accomplish it.
But there is still another obstructive cause aga inst
the farm-laborer going your way which is. that he
is cuided In different direction. However little
cared for at home. he Is in demand and competed
for in English colonies. Canada stretches for tn
her hand 10 clutch him. and, still longer arms are
extended. with like aim, from Australia and New
Zealand. England makes every effort to send him
TO one colony or the other: for il is great cbag1n
TO NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. TO SEE his flag orsaken,
even by those 70 whom h. behaves so badly. With
AL he shows stInginess in aiding this sort OF en-
ICration-eyen with the help sent from the other
side-only partially ranking passages, and under
conditions that render the enterprise little attract
i've OF late a grand squirt Of pretended philan-
thropv has led to large draught of labOrers get
ting carried free to Canada. and on to Manitoba.
But if mistake not. most of them Will in time
find their way to "a country further south, and well
for them if they do
I hat you want more of this farm-laborer element
in the States ! have reason to know having re-
celved several letters from unknown though not
ANONYMOUS correspondents on youT side, lnqurlng
of me bow. and in what way, they might secure
such valuable "helps' As most of the writers ap-
pear to be farmers and all readers Of TEE TRBUNE,
| crave your permission to answer them as one
formulating MY reply as follows: You cannot get
the best class of English tarm-labOrers without
some enterprise on your part. 1t will need his
passage to be wholly partially paid for him.
with contract for o fixed term of service. and
amount of wages stipulated. Then. on his part
there should be agreement to fOregO receipt of
wages til the passage money, or any Other
EXPENSES be recouped to his employer after which
ne should I've free TO 90 elsewhere if it plcases him
To make all this effective il would be necessary 70
establish m understanding in mutual good taith.
The labOrer sh ould know all about the situation
offered him. to Judge whether n he worthy
his acceptance and he no offers il must be assured
OF getting the SORT of man he has barga ned Tor;
above all that the advanced money VIII he hon
cstly returned in work In these conditions lies
the chief dficulty; though there seems n way of
overcoming IT. The thing might be done on the CO.
lucrative principle >by the establishment OF
syndicate on your SIDE with sufficient capital to
meet the transport expenses OF the engaged lmni-
grants On this side the necessity would he an
AGENT or agents. of known name and integrity, 10
give confidence to the intending emigrant, as also
TO make sure of his being the right man for the
right place - otherwise rejecting him. II such al
ranreiuent could lie made, have little doubt but
that many an English farm-laborcr would i've glad
10 avail himself of 1t and still less doubt OF his
finding it to his advantage, as likely also would
the man who employs him.