THE RIGHT IMMIGRANT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 47, 24 February 1906, Page 13

THE RIGHT IMMIGRANT.

A yonng Scotchman writes to tho Dnndoe Pcoplo's Journal from Hastings, Now Zoa. land, to the effect that Now Zealand is not » paradise for agricultural labourers, Ho then proceeds to relate what hardships thoy havo to enduro, ond gives it as his opinion that the form labourer is in many ways move comfortable at Homo. It may bo taken ns an axiom, says tho Toronto Qlobo on tho 17th January, that faun labouring is not a. paradise nnywheie, Tho farm labourer coming to Canada with any ambition and energy docs not piopoio to remain a farm labourer long, ll in programme is to get accustomed to tho ways of tho country, to accumul.tto n lit tlo monoy, and then get a homestead of his own, This will not be a paradise either. No matter what wild land he takes up lie may bo sure that with his limited capital tho first few years will tax his sturdineas and stout-heavtodne*s to iho utmoitt, but if he is made of the right stuff, with thrifty and prudent habits, he will at length bo tho owner of a faun, bo able to look with pride on his broad acres from tho door 01 his own comfortnble dwellino, and in turn bo tho employer of farm labourer*. Let us hope thut his own earlier experiences will make him a considerate and generous master. This is the history of thousands of cases all ovor this broad Dominion, Indeed, it is inevitable Ih overy case where the ohallenger of fortuno keeps his health, is of industrious habits, and of ordinary common senso. It is equally truo, howover, that there aro many misfits, It is often a failuio for the man who comes out with the expectation tTlat ho is coming to tv paradise, If the Immigrant were fortunate enough to find ft paradltso h<* would discover that it was enervating, nnd the last condition of that man would bo worso than the first. The best immigrant in the world is ho who by self-sacriflc© and saving gets together enough "slllor" to pay his passage to Canada and whoso chief fear is being idle, Lord Rothsohild's Idea is all right If It does not encourage the immigration of tho kind of man who would go anywhere jo long as it did not cost him labour and self-denial. That sort ot man would bo likely to bo Just as big a failure in Canada as in tho United King, dom, and, unfortunately for him, we havo not the Bame accommodation and arrangements for failures that he lms In his own land. There »,re nelthtr workhowhM nor uasuals, nor any other organisations of poor-law rcliof hero. If thoro ore to bo any assisted passages, therefore, those promoting them will not be doing their duty unless they make searching enquiries Into eaoh case, as far as possible, to determine whother tho would-be emigrant pos* wsses tho character, physique, and fitness tlmt promise success in a new land.