CROWDING INTO TOWNS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXV, Issue 7167, 7 March 1892, Page 3

CROWDING INTO TOWNS.

''In the debates in the Gorman Keichstag on the commercial treaties, Chancellor roil Caprivi announced that the Govern* ment was contemplating the introduction of a bill to regulate the migration q( tho rural population into the towns. The agriculturists complain of a great waut af labourers in consequence of this migration," wys the Berlin correspondent )i the Daily News, writing on 2;ird December, "and assert that the criminal •lasses arc swolleu by . this Influx of >eoplo. who for the greater part remain vithout occupation, and thus go to the Hid. The Government, it is said, prolosos to settle the education in this way : \nypersou wishing to leave his native ilace must advance proof that ho is ablo o acquire a dwelling for himself and hia amily in the new placo of settlement. Should ho, after having acquired such a [welling, not bo able to keep it for a evtain' space of lime, he would then be ent back to the placo ho cauic from, should he bo unable to work', his parish ?oul(l then have to allot to him a Iwolling. For this purpose it is proposed hat every labourer should pay a small lercentago of his wages to tho parish tiuds. The Kreuz fteitung, which mblishes theso particulars, expresses its treat satisfaction wjlh the intended re* iorui, bnt is afraid that tie Liberals will ippose it as an encroachuienfc on indivilual liberty. ,.