EMIGRATION TO THE STATES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 241, 2 December 1880, Page 4

EMIGRATION TO THE STATES.

Americana themselves appear to be very much interested in Mr Hughes' experiment. They deem his choice qf the United States a compliment to their country, while the enterprise being open to all comers will benefit ! Americans as well as Englishmen, if they choose to become shareholders. The success or failure of the scheme has the more interest because it is the creed of certain publicists in America to declare^that the American agriculturalist is j ÜBt now- very -in lich > ill-used. They assert that -the .laws presß too heavily upon them. to allow of their makiDg a living. If this .were, true Mr Hughes would hardly risk his young .community in-a land so heavily- ljandir .qapped. Still less would Canadian immigrants pass the frontier so often :as;they do for the United Statea., ;But the movement towards the latter icoun-f try is: so general that the attraetibiHs offers must be undoubtedly great; ■Nearly a couple of pf irisli people have; gqne thitljer in the last i thirty 7 ears/ and^ they would Be joined prpbablyjby as many more if the. pre-, aenC agrarian agitation was at an, end. Two hundred thousand Chinamen have migrated to the States since 1855, and; quite half have elected to remain there,, preferring exile with lucrative * 'pigeons " even to .their jciwn beloved Celestial i^mpire. f Germany has of late, for ob- : vious reasons, supplied a large pro-; portion of American immigrants, making a total as large as" the'numbers fromj •lilogland and America combined. The| influx, happily for the United States,; (is L m^ejUp^ainly:pf gkiljeid or partly! skilled laborers, who must contributej greatly to; the productive of tjae, rcountry. But it Js,an 4 bpen .quea.tioni whe,t|ieir tjbe labprmaykf t r pf Atn6rica>! iiotwithßtaiiding "its extraordinary' _p.QW«jBjQf .ptoiidiDgi :for .new -. corner^; may not some of these days be over^ ftqcked'by the congtant)y-|o s w||g fullj