Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-12-16 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

BARNARDO'3 EMIGRANTS. To the Editor of the Brighouse; atid Itastriek  Gazetie.  Sir,—May I ask for space to reply to a Canadian telegram about my boys, which has been widely iliffurkel in the Enslish press within the past few days, and which may, if unexplained, do grave injury to our Institutions! The prejudices enter. tatued in Cattail t against the emigration of trained youngsters from Homes like our are chiefly fostered by the Labour Party, which is very powerful throughout the Dominion, and which every one desires to propitiate on account of its political influence. The party objects, on principle, to young emigrants, whether good or bad, because it holds that their introduction lowers the standard of wages. —an absurd atatement when the sparseness of the population is considered. Ours being the most prominent and typical of the Children's Emigration Societies, we are marked out for attack upon all occasions, whether the boy or girl aocused is from our Homes or nut, Canadian mails just to hand bring prom of this. A boy 14 yeare of age is acoused in Manitoba of murder. For days or weeks the country rings with an account of A flllittDUt I.Y A BaItgALIDJ Au ecknowledgcuien. of the error and a feeble apology tardily follow° I after it had been proved up to the hilt bat the boy in que•tion never was in auy home of ours I But doz.ns of papers, which putilieli the original accusation, never trouble to publish the reply! Another lad has recently been found guilty of larceny, and we have only just succeeded in getting oue of the most prominent papers of Toronto to say that its statement averring that this also Was' A 13A.liblARDO itOY ' was entirely groundless. With regard to Manitoba, the case staude thus. If we Ben I out say, 1.50 J trained lads, of these not less than 1,4E0 do • very well,' and ' fairly well. That important foot is, however, entirely ignored by the lotbour Party and the Press though, try Bawling these 1,480 lads out at tne sole cost of benevolent people in this country, we have conferred an iiicalculable benotit upon the North West. But the 20 'failures,' or comparative failures remain. These we classify as ' middling had ' ' very bad' Say there are 8 or 10, at the moat, a deem, in the last named section; these perhaps come before the public, and a heedless prejudice together with a partial deiire to propitiate the all-powerfnl proletariat, causes some jury (whether common or grand), or some other public body, or some journalist hard up for political ' copy ' to see in them fair reoresentatives of the whole. Hence Me jurors' presentmeut or the journalist's leader. There may even be sotne other forces at work, such as anti-religious feeling on ttie part of some, which teude to bring into bad and undeserved emineace any reputated !allure that may have cceured. From all these we, of course, coutinually suffer ; but the stern logic of facto is not to be shaken by sensational telegrams, from wnomseever they may come, As a matter of incontrovertible tact, less Lau 2 per cent of all our I young emigrants are failures, and only a fraction of one per cent has been added to the vicious or , criminal population of Canada, I give these figurers upon the responsible authority of the Minister of Agriculture, tile Hun, iti• John Carling. em, Dear Sir, Yours faithfully,