DANES AND SWEDES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14132, 11 February 1910, Page 3

DANES AND SWEDES.

COUNT MORNER’S EXPLANATION WANTED AT HOME. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. ‘ SYDNEY, Feb. 10. The Danish Consul and Count Morner both state that neither Denmark nor Sweden can spare agricultural emigrants. Though they do send emigrants from other classes, they find it difficult to place them. Both warnings were due to Count Morner sending a clipping from a newspaper of Mr. Holman’s speech on the immigration policy at Newcastle in November last. The Danish Consul thought the announcement by his Government was due to the statement published in Swedish papers. In a letter to his Government in May last he stated: “With the exception of servants and agricultural labourers the conditions here are such that the Consulate absolutely advises against emigration. Danish women willing to work as servants can always find something to do. Tho pay is good, but the work hard. As for male emigrants, only tho agricultural labourer who can stand hard work is wanted. For commercial people or people without a trade Australia is tho last place to come to. Businesses and offices are all filled from the country’s own people, and it is most difficult for foreigners to find employment.” Count Morner states that most of tho Swedes who come here are looking for city positions, and he had the greatest difficulty in finding work for them. Some had been sent off to America. Out of the large number who had applied to him he had only found work for three, and these in menial positions below their accomplishments. Tho people had been deceived by colour do rose schemes. The Government would not help them because tho men were not assisted immigrants. Sometimes work was offered up country, but ho was asked to nay tho immigrant's fare there. It would ho a good'thing.if the Government gave free passes to such as found work in the country, or even lent money for fares. Many of these men spent everything they had in getting here. It was easy to say there was plenty of work, but the way to prove it was for the Government or private persons to help him to find work forthose immigrants. A farmer with money could get on splendidly hero, but so he could in Sweden. He sent the cutting of Mr. Holman’s speech, with a request that it he handed to the Swedish Anti-emigration Society. VIEWS OF COUNT MORNER. ATTACKS THE PRESS. (Received Feb. 11, 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, Feb. 11. Count Morner, the Swedish Consul, states the extract of the speech of Mr. Holman, Deputy-Leader of the Opposition, was sent as a supplement to a previous report in which he stated that the Australian Governments had no responsibility whatever in tho propaganda made by'tho irresponsible Immigration League of Australia, that there were different opinions prevailing in Australia relating to the immigration question and that a prominent political party was opposed to tho movement. Count Morner claims only to have acted fairly in giving the opinion of the minority. Referring to tho press criticism, he said it would have Been fairer for the press to have "waited until it was in possession of the exact text of the warning he was supposed to have given. He did not mind being criticised for .what he had done or stated, but he objected to being criticised for what was not done. At present ho knew as little about the matter as his critics did. It would have been more dignified for the Australian press if it had produced the corpus delicti before trying to make him responsible for the foreign policy of two of the oldest and most educated kingdoms of the world. A LABOUR PROTEST. (Received Feb. 11, 10.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Feb. 11. The Trade’s Council has adopted a resolution expressing strong approval of Count Morner’s warning to Swedish emigrants and protesting against the Minister of Custom’s statement that there was employment for thousands, when thousands of our own citizens are unaCle to find work.