WHAT IS TO BE DONE FOR THE PEOPLE ? (Blackwood's Magazine for June)

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 261, 29 November 1848, Page 3

WHAT IS TO BE DONE FOR THE PEOPLE ? (Blackwood's Magazine for June)

What should ho dune is perfectly plum uiul generally acKnow cilgcil. You will not (md (rii men of sense 01 inform .lion in Gi <u Bnliin, out of the pitcinboi the colonial and oihei government olliccs, who have two opinions on the 6ul»jut. To lchcvo the labour muikct in Gienr JJntam and fieljnd a groat efToit should irnmuliatcly ho made to Uaiibporl sonic handled thousand o( the \eiy pooicst class, who cannot emigrate on their own icsouicus, t') Canada, the Cape, nnd Austiuha Wages in the latlei country are ham 4s. to sft. a-siuy fi>r common, Go. urn] 7>>. u day foi sinl lt<l ldljui'r, Irchnd is tin i;K'at qwitcv to wlncli tin's relief should be c\tcpJod ; ll ill muplus lniiluiu.i. >.ue taken off, t!iepnssni<'on (^it,ii i3nUm willhespuMily abated, bhips of w/ir, to lighttn the coil of tr.unjioit, tihnuld he emjiiojid tn ti .msport llio emigrants vii tliey do our regiments, Goviinnicnl l)arrjoit« .should he eit.ilihshed, with propiM' ofi'icua to iud'ive the cim-f^i-n.t-i at their landing, sopciale t!v ln.Uthy from tlu» sick, (Htnhli jh the latli'i in piopci hoci it'ilt,, so as lo Gtop the Hired of typlmb lever, end ioi'/aul at the pul'lic j*\))i'nse, thu hcivlthy nuti active u> the hontier. oiiiu oiiicus nliDuld lie apjioniiul ih ieto allot them giourid, iind them tooli, (uniish them with seed, or pioviilii th in tvith cinployiJH nt. This .ihuuhl be ilono io at lmibt iliue hundred iliou^aud oi font Imariicd thoimui'l ciiii'jianla annually [or some ycuib to come Wo shiiuhl hive V) w, I 'io Clinun'n oi iv^^oai l/jain.i whicli would Jong > and ngjiMbt &m:h u course ot hu« mane, und r»itbulwistt ami Unly liicial, U-iuA.wvm.

Hut Burh great mc'ismcs would repine money, the average cca" of c ich oinig ant so ti.iusported nud looked lo in the colony Would In X 6 to ( 1 ; lhr<e or fmn hundred lliousind peuons e ( » provded with the means of emigration would co-t from 2,000,000 to 2,.")00,000 u-yc:ir. Giantrd. Could the money bo bcltei bestowed? Ifjjwould not vijd any ••chini, like tlmt divoicil to mnkiDK ftood liish romls hail oik B 1 1 would convert three hundied thousand paiipci ■> annually into consumers of llnt'isli tiri'iufacdwos to the auiouiil of thiouor four pounds u-houd ; it would udd L' 1,000,000 or Cl,20'),000 a yt'.ir to the export of liiilish mutiutactuics ; it would suoure u durublc vent for our qoodg by planting 15 itish descoudents in tho New Woild ; it would npuad joy and oomfoit llnongh Manchester, Birmingham, und (Mas^nw, not lo c< 5 th.vi Tipperaiy and Galwuy ; it would extinp;uiHli — ,iiul oxtinsjuisli by moans of Christian licnuliccnce — tho ihmc of iliviutislucUon in the rcalni ; il would £ivc to our people all th.it Ficuch socialism has ihnt is re.illy beneficial, and save them fiom the unutterable and ine.iilcul.iblc evils wilh which it is fr.mglit ; it would lcstorc thobaliincclu'tu'ccn capital and industry, bo and lninously demnc;ed by lliccllcctß ol free trade of l.ii'j yours: it would /^o l.ir to alhviatc tne misery which the peinuious (iigm.is icgaulim', the euuency have Rpuad thiouj;h the couiiliy. For hlessinxs hih-Ii ns tliesc is tho i^siie of Uxolicqnßr-bill.'t tothc ixuuloi two or Ihiec millions ii yeai lor some ye.ii i an cxtravagmt puo; 1 lo pay? Would not Jioc time lite sum be al once ljoinA\cd l)y llie Stale in i\ sjngle jcar ii wai weii'lo bienk out wilh France or Ameiiui ? An; Ihe dun^eis of any Liich war to be compared lo those which must inevitably be nicuired il the picsent fnghtful mass of paupciiiin, i lleness, and deßliliuion, is allowed (o continue utnclieved, and to go on increasing in tlie countiy ? Whut must, in the end, be tlio 10 nu lt of Mich n state of things, but internal anarchy, foreign degradation, ultimate ruin ?