LONDON EMIGRATION. [To THE EDITOR OP THE 'Brill:1 , mM") Stn,—The question
of emigration from this city to the British dominions and colonies may be regarded from two aspects, widely different and yet closely connected. There is in the first place the problem of settling our vast colonial lands, especially in Australasia and Canada, with families of British blood. The need of this is being keenly felt in Australasia, and in Canada the recent evidence of affection towards the Mother Country points the same lesson. The time is propitious for good emigration work. The second problem concerns the unskilled labourer of good character and physique unable to find steady work. Every social worker knows the danger of demoralization when lack of work has compelled a man to seek aid, Taken in time, such a man transplanted with his family to another part of the Empire, where constant work awaits the willing worker, becomes a valuable asset to the country and has a future for himself and his family full of promise. The Charity Organization Society with its committees all over London Las an especial opportunity of learning of such oases; and through its Emigration Sub-Committee can make all the arrangements if only the money is forthcoming to pay the cost of passage. The evidence is overwhelming that Londoners reduced to practical destitution over here do become excellent settlers under more happy
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conditions. A few short extracts letters will instance this. "Plenty of fresh air and plenty of good food and a a kgood e hence to save; that is, if they have a liking for work."
"There is no playtime on the farms out here, but it Clisnhtaerialot.hy and good for everybody, and I would not come back. I have a njee little home, plenty of work, and every prospect of getting on." Ontario. " We are doing vary well. Wo are living in our own house, which my husband and the boys built of wood. No one put a nail in the house but my husband and the boys. I shall never want to come back."
Melbourne. "My pay is seven shillings per day of eight hours—quite a nice change for a man who was three months out of work in the old country and signs of another three if I had not taken this stop. There is plenty of work for them that care to do it."
We venture to ask your readers to help us. The Charity Organization Society is known to be careful in its selection of emigrants. It does not, of course, send the pick of our workers, for they need no snob help ; but it chooses sober, willing, healthy workers in distress. It takes full care that arrangements are made to meet the families on the other
side and to place the men in work. It also endeavours to keep in touch with them, and so help to keep alive and
strengthen the feeling of kinship between the old country and the new. Any donations to assist this work would be gladly received by the undersigned at Denison House, Vauxhall Bridge Road, S.W. They should be marked as intended for the " Emigration Fund."—We are, Sir, &c.,
SANDERSON, Chairman of Council.
FRANCIS MORRIS,
Chairman Emigration Sub-Committee. C. S. LOCH, Secretary. Charity Organization Society.
['Readers of the Spectator who respond to this appeal will have the satisfaction of knowing that not a penny of their money will be wasted, or given to unworthy objects, or employed in ways which do more harm than good. The extracts from "Home Letters" are good reading. There is none of the self-pity for bard work which is so disturbing a note in many of the voices now heard in this country.—En. Spectator.]
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