IMMIGRATION.

Evening Star, Issue 3934, 4 October 1875, Page 3

IMMIGRATION.

To the Editor. SB, —fieferirg to your advocacy of the introduction of effective industrial power” by means of wholesale immigration, is it not n prostitution of langUige to call that “effective ” which can find no sphere of oneration V No amount of glossing will conceal the fact that hundreds of industrious and deserving men, many with families of young children depen.tent upon them for bread, may be seen wandering through the streets unable to procure any legitimate means ol support. The writer can point out men belonging to nearly every branch of industry, who have been out of employment from one to five months. Under such circumstances, and at a time when mercenary, and, I must add, mendacious agents are sending from their homes thousands (under the plea of high wages and constant work), who, if they could not rise above their station, might be, at least, comfortable in it, I consider it a duty which the unemployed owe to themselves and society to adopt some expedient by which their brethren in the old hind m>iy be warned against emigrating to a country whore their chances of obtaining permanent employment are at least a hundred per cent, less than in the old country.— I a.r, &., Victim. Dunedin, September 28. [We have invariably inserted letters from complaining immigrants, however doubtful their statements may be, for we think it right they should have a means of expressing theii opinions. That there may be some out of work we dare say is true. So there are every where, but the ra'e of wages is a sufficient proof that “ out of work ” is the exception not the rule.— E. K. S.]