IMMIGRATION AND TAXATION.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3432, 22 December 1879, Page 3

IMMIGRATION AND TAXATION.

(To tho Editor of the Evening Star.)

Sib, —For years I have written against the immigration scheme, and designated it as the 19fch century system of slavery, and have now no reason to alter what I have written, as what I wrote against the schema events have proved to be true; in fact tho alare, if anything, i 3 superior to tho laborer of the present, in this, that be is not taxed to enslave others, and he does not of his own free will enslave himself or others; for I maintain he would do so did ho submit to unbearable taxes without objection, or endure others to come and take the bread out of his mouth.' What other name can be given to a system that keeps the laborer always in poverty ? What would be said of a man orer head in debt writing home for money, not to enable Irim to get put of debt, but to bring a friend or relation out to make both him- , self and relation still deeper in debt, and with no chance of getting out of it. This is what the Government have done and are d«tm£. Then these men already in debt are taxed to bring more out to still increase their burdens, for with every additional immigrant fresh expenses are incurred, and additional taxation must be imposed, and then the class that receives the least benefit has to pay tho most, and have to be grateful in the bargain for being alive. If slavery is worse than this it is merely in the name.—l am, &C-- P.B.P. December 22nd, 1879.