The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-21
ARE
GREATLY WORRIED
Scotland Is Becoming Dcpopu-
lated at Rapid
Rate.
PEOPLE LEAVING COUNTRY
Emigration Agents Are Taking
Thousands of It's Work
ingmen.
PEOPLE LEAVING COUNTRY
By pHII.LlP

economists
here are greatly worried at the indls-
Putable fact that Scotland is becoming
ucpoPulated at an alarming rate, .
TACT which has been made more evident
than ever by the census Just taken.
There Is not the slightest doubt as
TO the reasons which cause tens OF
thousands OF home-loying. Industrious
scots TO ieaVe the country of their
birth TO go to other countries where
they find the opportunities that are de-
MED them at home, and several Scotch
members OF Parliament were very out
spoken on the subject when l an
day.
r A. Moiteno. who is the represent
alive Of Dumfriesshirc in the House of
Commons. said:
The decline in the population OF
scotland is no surprise to me. have
been calling public attention to II for
years past. There are no small farms
70 De had;,there Is no ladder by meant
OF which A man can rise. Indeed, in
some districts it is impossible to even
get n house.
Ian you wonder, then, that when 8
Cansoian emigration agent comes along
hnc tells these people about IA land
"here they can get freehold farms or
easy terms. they go? In my county
Dumfries, we have some OF the finest
men In the kingdom. and they arc
oeins driven away from their homes
because they cannot get a bit of lano
to till.
There is no country in Europ,
where the land laws arc so detrimental
10 the public o o as they are In Scot.
tand- Twelve persons own 3,4OO. DOC
acres which is equal to the whole
cultivated area of Belgium. Seventy
men " over 100000 acres, which Is
equal 10 the cultivated area of Den.
marx. European economists point to
scotland as the most modern illustra.
tlon OF the Ills that q bad land system
VIII intiict upon a people,
a. {. Morton, NJ, P. for sutherland
SHIRE, spoke very much in the same
vein. He said:
IN the county which represent we
nave $4,000 acres. which the Crofters'
Commission reported in 1875 10 be
htted for cultivation. The game com
mission reported that in the six croft
ing counties--Invcrness, Ross and
Cromarty, Sutherland. Argyllsh!re.
C%aithness and Orkney and Shetland
there were l,750 acres which might
be cultivated.
But nothing has been done, and the
result has been that all the young
people have had TO clear out. This is
shown by the returns OF old aye pen-
sions paid. The percentage OF persons
over seventy is higher in Sutherland
shlfe than in any other part of Brit
an. nave no hesitation in saying
mat $4,000 more people could live
there in comfort.
True. the days are gone when You
might trace the track OF emigration
IN the charred thatch of ruined crofts.
put a close investigation will reveal
1 SO IN CT hInp . 1r,nS{ Ifa. b,r 49, -..-
after house you Will find the old age
! pensioner or the solitary couple. hut
no sialwart sons or daughters. Ask
"here the young people are gone, n
you VIII be told, with a shake of the
mead. that John and Willy and half a
Dozen more of their children could see
no prospect of securing farms of their
own in Scotland, and have been lured
away by the emigration poster which
bangles before their eyes the promise
of $50 acres in Canada"
In spite OF keir Hardie's denuncia-
ton OF all Welshmen who are prepar-
ling TO take part in the investiture of
the Prince OF Wales, reminding them
that the first Prince of Wales was the
(. Oldest son of the conqueror of their
country, everybody in Wales. from
Lloyd George to the iiumblest working
A'oh az Sh. Ia Foii, rs iOOHlUS forward
TO the event with great expectations
probably not so much because very
much Importance is attributed 10 the
ceremony itself as because of the pros
perity which 1t is hoped will follow in
It's wake.
The medieval ceremony promises to
/: bring to Wales a greater number OF
I. wealthy American visitors than ever
before. and Welshmen feel sure that
\ mnSf nj. 1hnSn ,,,fI1 1o sp nh r,,, oil ,t.it1,
The, great natural beauties, that they
will repeat their visit and include IL IN
their annual round OF excursions, and
thus give the Impulse to a great in
vasion OF wealthy tourists, leaving be-
hind them q trail of golden dollars.
The government is doing everything
TO make the ceremony of the tnvesti-
ture al imposing one. and the planned
naval review Will almost be as i'm
presslve as the cremation review at
Spithead.
II IS intended that the whole OF the
O~readnaught battleships and cruisers
in the home fleet shall anchor in Car
narvon Bay, and that torpedo beat de
ktroyers and possibly submarines shall
take up positions In the River Seignt,
which runs under the shadow OF the
gray castle walls. These vessels Will
act as escort to the royal yacht, on
which the King and Queen will stay al
Holiyhcad on the night before thu in
v%esttture of their son.
Al a low estimate 10000 visitors are
expected to take part in the celebra7
lions. Nine thousand people will be
accommodate with seats on grand
stands which are now being erected
within the ruins of the old castle. and
TT least $4,000 people will be able to
see the presentation of the prince from
Queen I5%leanor's Gateway. a
Mapv ad6Iftora thnticapda will yuofcl
the royal procession through more
han two miles of road between Grit.
fths Crossing. wheEo the King and
Queen and the Prince of Wales will
land from the royal yacht. to tho mar
ket square on which tho main por.
lions of the castle abut.