In Darkest England, and the Way Out

has been diligently fostered in certain quarters by those who have openly admitted that they did not wish to deplete the ranks of the Army of Discontent at home, for the more discontented peopl

migration as carried on hitherto, and if it be a consolation to any of my critics I may say at once that so far from compulsorily expatr

nder the influence of steam and electricity there has come a sense of brotherhood and a consciousness of community of interest and of nationality on the part of the English-speaking people throughout the world. To change from Devon to Australia is not such a change in many respects as merely to cross over from Devon to Normandy. In Australia the Emigrant finds him self among men and women of t

speak of the Colonies as if they were a foreign land. They are simply pieces of Britain distri

with them. But no Colony, not even the Protectionist and Trade Unionists who govern Victoria, could rationally object to the introduction of trained Colonists planted out upon the land. They would see that these men would become a source of wealth, simply because they would at once become producers as well as consumers, and instead of cutting down wages they would tend directly to improve trade and so increase the employment of the workmen now in the Colony. Emigration as hitherto conducted has been carried out on directly opposite principles to these. Men and women have simply been shot

by these crowds, but those habits of industry, truthfulness, and self-restraint, which will enable them to profit by better conditions if they could only come to possess them

absolutely indispensable to the earning of a subsistence amid the hardships of an Emigrant's life? Such would naturally shrink from the self-denial the new circumstances inevitably cal

" and yet I am strongly of opinion, with the majority of those who have thought and written on political economy, that

ation of the Colo

ation of the peop

s that are rendered po

ople when

some other land. British Columbia has been strongly urged upon our notice. Indeed, it is certain if this Scheme proves the success we anticipate, the first Colony will be the forerunner of similar communities elsewhere. Africa, however, presents to us great advantages for the moment. There i

E COLONY AND

s to the position and character of the land; the accessibility of markets

ufficient tract of suitable country for the purpose of a Colony,

ending a competent body of men under skilled supervision to fix on a suitable location for the first settlement, erecting such buildings a

red to receive them. Further locations could then be chosen, and more country broken up, and before a very long period has

out and enforce the same laws and discipline to which the Colonists had been accustomed in Engl

upport; that is to say, they would buy and sell, engage in trade, hire se

plied by them, when once fairly established, would buy for their agents what they were at the outset unabl

e land, would be held on behalf of the entire community, and utilised for its general advantages, a certain percentage bein

em in hand on landing and directing and controlling them generally. So far as possible, they would be introduced to work without a

m the emigrants would probably have known before in the old country, together with all the social influences, restraints, and religious enjoyments to which the Colon

indulge in any hope of their succeeding. While men and women would be received into the City Colo

ambition to do well for themsel

ed in all that concern

ndustries in which they woul

to the hardships they

d to the economies they

ith the comrades with whom they

Government, Orders, and Regulati

f patience, forbearance, and affection which would so largely tend to their

O THE COLON

ent of difficulty in it, if the remedy is to be applied on a very la

ch a location in South Africa, as we have in view, by ones and twos at #8 per head, including lan

iends who would assist them with th

me relatives, who are comfortably settled in the Colony, will save money, and assist their kindred in getting out to them. We have the examples be

instrument to repay all monies, expenses of passage, outfit, or otherw

n. The history of Australia and the United States evidences this. It is quite true the first settlers in the latter were people superior in every way for such an enterprise to the bulk of those we propose to send out. But it is equally true that large numbers of the most ignorant and vicious of our Europe

the few men in this country who has had practical experience of the actual difficulties of colonisation. I have, through a mutual friend, had the advantage of comparing notes with him very fully, and I venture to believe that there is nothing in this Scheme that is not in harmony with the result of his experience. In a couple of months this book will be read all over the world. It will bring me a plentiful crop of

-UNIVERSAL

lie in the way of the adoption of the remedy; the dislike of the people to so great a change as is involved in going from one country to another; the cost of their transfer, and their general unfitness for an emigrant's life. These difficulties, as I think we have seen, are fully met by th

aptation to, and the openings they present for different trades and callings, the possibility of obtaining land and employment, the rates of remuneration,

ny one may obtain all

, railway companies, and land agents, of which em

be supplied, as far as

ies to which the emigr

s, desirous of saving

u in the Army Bank

ring Colonists of reliable character will apply to this Bureau for such, offering

ion from abroad where the emigrant's expenses are defrayed,

on, anyway, with very poor prospects, who would be very welcome abroad, the expense of whose transfer governments, and masters and mistresses alike wou

ly its agencies that it will speedily be able to make personal enquiries on both sides, that

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earth, can fail to sympathise with the horror excited in many minds by the very word emigration. But when our party sets out, there will be no violent wrenching of home ties. In our ship we shall export them all-father, mother, and children. The individuals will be grouped in families, and the families will, on the Farm Colony, have been for some months past more or less near neighbours, meeting each other in the fiel

igrants when they are on their way to their destination. Many and many a girl has dated her downfall fro

ich makes the whole ship talk. I do not see why this should be so. Of course, in the case of conveying passengers and freight, with the utmost possible expedition, for short distances, it would be idle to expect that either time or energies could be spared for the employment or instruction of the passengers. But the case is different when,

question of time, which would be of very secondary importance with us, the construction of a sailing ship would afford more space for the accommodation of emigrants and for industrial occup

ve and profitable. From leaving London to landing at their destination, every colonist would be under watchful oversight, could receiv

of the vessel which carries him, as the amount of provisions he consumes during the passage. Now, with this plan I think that the emigrants might be made to earn at least a portion of this outlay. There is no reason why a man should not work on board ship any more than on land

ng afloat, I cannot see why they should not engage in some form of industrial work far more profitable than yawning and lounging about the deck, to say nothing of the fact that by so doing they

to find employments on board ship which could be engaged in to advantage, and it might not be found possible to fix up every individual right away; but I think there would be very few of the

loading and unloading of cargo. All these operations could be readily done under the direction of permanent hands. Then shoemaking, knitting, sewing, tailoring, and other kindred occupations could be engaged in. I should think

g from love and not as a mere business. The effect produced by our ship cruising slowly southwards testifying to the reality of a Salvation for both worlds, calling at all convenient ports, would constitute a new kind of mission work, and drawing out everywhere a large amount of warm practical sympathy. At present the influence of those who go down to the sea in ships is not always in favour of raising the morals and rel