OUR EMIGRANTS.
(To the Editor.) Sir, —Why is there so much indignation because the poor emigrant desires to settle in the town? We can't all go< on the land, and commerce must flourish. Where is our boasted liberty, if a man is not allowed to choose his own hornet Our attitude towards the new arrival is both selfish and inhospitable. We make distinctions and institute comparisons with the-early colonists. True, he comes not from the classic environments of Botany Bay, but is nevertheless British, Celt, or Saxon. Driven from Home, perhaps by cruel circumstances, he must have felt the rent as keenly as ourselves. Let us all give him a caed millefailte—a hundred thousand welcomes.—l am, etc., GAI-:;.TC.
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Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 179, 29 July 1909, Page 6
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118OUR EMIGRANTS. Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 179, 29 July 1909, Page 6
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