REMITTANCE MEN.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3102, 27 January 1909, Page 4

REMITTANCE MEN.

Discussing the question of remittance men and the colonies the "Standard of Empire" says:-—The broad oversea lands of tlie Empire deserve not the worst and weakest, but the best we can give them, in the shape of young manhood; the rewards they olfer are worthy of the best. If a youngster of twenty may not wisely be given a stock-in-trada of a thousand pounds, without guidance or restraint, here among conditions with which he has always been familiar, what reason can there be for supposing that it is wise or safe to entrust him with the same amount in a new country, among strange conditions, where he will be free to do exactly as his most casual impulses direct? Finally, if success is to be obtained and trouble avoided, a young man who journeys oversea to make his fortune and carve out a career for himself must bear steadily in mind the fact that he goes to learn, not to instruct; to assimilate, not to impose; and to make himself a successful aud creditable part of a new country, not to attempt the ridiculous task of making that new country fit his preconceived ideas and

habits. Whether he be the son of a pauper or a millionaire, the only wise kind of beginning for a youngster in , a new country is a couple ot years j of inudeat and observant wage-earn- | ins. I