The difficulty which the rich have in quite understanding the
position of the poor was well illustrated in a speech of Lord Lorne at Glasgow on Tuesday. He has been making many speeches on emigration to Canada, often very good, though with a little too much of the gazetteer in them; but on Tiles- d.aybe propounded a new idea. He thought wealthy citizens at home could not do better than assist emigrating families with -t50 or ,L100 each. "Families with able-bodied-men and women among them might rest assured of success, if they could get any of their wealthy fellow-citizens to give them 250 or 2100." Does Lord Lorne really think that the hard-working, rough- tliving, industrious families, who succeed as agricultural emi- grants, would fail here, if they had 2100 of capital each ? His lather's crofters would tell him a very different story, and so would the ploughmen and thatchers of the South.
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