CONGRESS ON EMIGRATION.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 164, 18 September 1880, Page 2

CONGRESS ON EMIGRATION.

Itisriiuinuivdllmtacongrfisiiiisdosirahli! I in its pin - | use us il hj unprecedented in its necessity will shortly be summoned and that England. France, (jerinimy—indeed. :ill the Knropo.iu l'n'.ver-. will lie in- | vited li> semi their delegates to it. The country Inking lliu initiative |is America, and her itil«-it'.*t in the 1 j snlijei't fni' consideration is paramount, j though her view of it will be in curious opposition to those of the other I'owcrs. , I 111 past period* hi' crisis emigration has \ heeii thu cure cT gravis ilillieukies, and I the only solution which political eeoliomints would admit for the evil of over- j population. Kurupe eonld nut aksorli its own inhabitants, mid tliu Transatlantic continent wiw almost virgin soil. Uuth i i hemispheres bcnclited by :tu iwvangeuieiit I which peopled the one and relieved the I ' j other. Hut in the Inusc of two genera- | lions, while the supply in Kqcopo soms I constant, the character of the Auierienn demand has materially altered. The [ alilr-biiilieil, untrained, hopeful but in- | 'oapftble colonist i» a drug ill the market, I ! while New York seems to have more ] to oiler to the skilled workman than llerlill ai\d Vienna, or even Paris and London, Kvil timec Idgh" prices., bad trade, uiHi'nlterud laws ore driving, from Havre, : Hamburg, and Liverpool ri.-h.ss the Athmlie a claw o{ emigrants mora fuuiiliar! j tl\an welcome in the new country of their adoption, but with ilium also are ! I travelling iielftks of workmen which Klijj- I i laud is lurry t<> lose and America eager 'to greet, Human merchandise is not, I indeed, to 1)0 aontl'ollod by custom-house I regulations, but&cnngl'UM which will deal j with the organisation of emigration, mid i I iu which producer and commuter are uliko i represented, iniisl lead to good results. - 1 Kiii'iipcuu Mail IMb .Inn*.