Concerning the proposed extensive organization for English farm laborers to emigrate to America, the New York Tribune remarks: — Such an exodus of people totally unacquainted with the conditions under which they will be compelled to work and live in the depth of the Canadian (forests, must most certainly end in disaster. An American born or educated person with an axe and a year's food ahead, could, without great hardship, make himself independent of further help in his new home. But an individual, however willing he may be to work, not knowing how to proceed, will be as helpless as a child under the same circumstances, and would eventually starve. The system of tutelage under which thc English laborer has existed for centuries renders him the most unpromising material for emigration en masse, and there have been surely enough of failures to make this apparent.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 112, 12 May 1874, Page 2
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