The Manawatu Daily Times. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 3,. 1882. IMMIGRATION.

Manawatu Times, Volume VIII, Issue 151, 3 January 1883, Page 2

The Manawatu Times.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 3,. 1882. IMMIGRATION.

'Words are things, aad. a. drop, of ink fal'ing like dew upon a tiioiiglit,' pro^u^Ss t)».t which makes thousi4id3, pei-'isiDs raiU'.ons think," '

lif.his speech-AS at banquets m this colony l'ecently, Sir Julius Yogel dwelt largely upon the desi rability of immigration. This is natural. Immigration was the complement of the great public works scheme, and -Sir Julius naturally holds that we. shall not derive the fullest, possible beueftts from the. public, works executed until ye have largely increased our population. At Welliugton he.said — " When. one travelled through the colony and saw at every step. the rpfcourges that were .capable of making it. squal to the. most favored Jand m the. universe, he was astounded at the want of. population. In 1870 they decided to convert the 260,000 m the. colony into, half- a. mi]lioa. In his opinio.n, they, should? now make up their min^is to, turn the half into a whole, million-. They had preparedithis colony to be a.home for hundreds and, thousands of their feliow-beings, and- they shqul^nqt, now sjtpp m ihe work and : refuse to enable them to come. here," In his. speech at. Dunedin, Sir Juliu3 Yogel went more, fully iuto, this question. He thqught, our. esper* ienco of the beneflfcs of ipunigration. was so clear and full that, wp must iaee the desirability of extending VSipher, than decreasing it, " so long,"he abided, "as judicious efforts are made \n, the, way of selection." It is just at this paint that opinions will differ. What is the class, we ip,pst need ? Prom yesterday's. New Zealand Times we g t'er that some 800 men employed on MrProudfoot's .railway contracts m New South Wales, went from. New Zealand j

ill fact, there was quite a '* rush " iv lStil from New Zealand to New South "Wales, which is without doubt the most prosperous colony m Aus- j tralawia at the present time. These facts teach the lesson that it is n,ot a laboring p.o.piis&ti£>n. w.e ar.e in;want of so much: a^ 1 &§t tiers, — :inen, with small capital, kayjug knowledge of farming?, who are. prepared to taj?e up laas, and become pr. dicers. No doubt "if wo imported during the next few years forty; or fifty thousand able'fbqdied. men — navvies^ or "farm laborers — a fair.. propo-rtioa of them would eopnervor laj?er; ; become themselves, lauded proprietors, their naturr4 capacity for growing rich ■compensating for lack, of capita]. ; but there, would be a large number who, would, be the, opposite, who j .would, have no saying capacity, and for whom work must be found either by the State, the. local bodies, or by private enterprise, or they would become bnrdens to the colonists. Is the colony sufficiently advanced- to be able to stand during the next few years (he doubling of its population, ? We . think not. Undoubtedly . we have the " resources," as Sir Julius Yogel said, but if we increase our population, afc.a more rapid rate than those i*esources are developed, we shall either drive, some of our preseuh population away to make room for those we import, or we shall be compelled to increase the taxation, to such an. extent through borrowing more nioiiey to. find Avovk for the newcomers, that capitalists will not invest hi the colony. We hold therefore . that the policy of the f uture should be— (l.) To oiler every facility to small capitalists to- come to the colony from either the Australian colonies or Europe; (2) To extend as far as possible the system of nominated immigration, the Government bearing parfc of the expense of each immigrant accepted-, . aiid (3) To. constitute a Department $o Promote the Growth of Industries with the view of securing a permanent) manufacturing pppiilation. These measures,' if" judiciously carried oourt r would largely increase the population m a. few years without burdening the taxpayers.