Prospectus of the Scots New Zealand Land CompanyMatthew, Patrick
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Prospectus of the Scots New Zealand Land Company
Matthew, Patrick
New Zealand -- Emigration and immigration; Scots New Zealand Land Company
Colonization is merely sowing the seeds of future prosperity. The
perfection and extent of our manufactures, the source of our national
wealth and of the value of our landed property, are owing to the demand
and supply of the United States and other colonies which we have
planted,--our trade to which exceeds that to all the world besides.
During depressions of trade, we give charitable supply to those who
cannot find employment, keeping up numbers of unemployed people, ready
should labour come a little more into demand, to compete with those
in employment, and thus keep down wages to the lowest pitch. This is
merely a nursing of misery. Were those who could not get employment, or
who could not live comfortably upon what they received for their work,
sent out to fruitful new lands and properly located, each person sent
away would give employment to a person at home in fabricating articles
for his use, and for which he would make return in raw produce, thus
converting our paupers into rich customers, and raising the price
greatly of home labour. Emigration is going on to a vast extent from
the Eastern and Middle United States, keeping up a most favourable
field for industry, and rendering a family highly advantageous in these
countries. Nothing hinders Britain from enjoying the same advantages
but her stupid and guilty neglect. Our colonies are fully as extensive,
as healthy, and as favourable a field for industry, and it is not more
difficult now for a native of Britain to emigrate to some of our very
extensive colonies, than for an inhabitant of the Atlantic States to go
to the banks of the Missouri or the Texas Territory. It would be more
so were Government to give its aid in Navy transports, and by so doing
the Service would be greatly benefited. Why, then, should the condition
of the working population of Britain not be as favourable as that of
the people of the United States?
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