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Show MAY STAY AT HOME. It is the opinion ol' a Loudon financial finan-cial expert that "nations are made up of individuals! and if a nation incurs a debt of extraordinarily crushing; dimensions, di-mensions, each Individual may avoid responsibility re-sponsibility by (.'migrating,'' Of course the opportunity to emigrate will always be open. There is, however, some difference dif-ference of opinion as to whether it will be very generally embraced at the close of the war in Europe, many thousands thou-sands of men are being slain or hopelessly hope-lessly maimed each day, that there will be plenty of work for those who come through the great struggle unscathed. It will take years to restore Belgium, Poland and northern France, and there is no telling how far the work of destruction de-struction will extend in other directions. The work- of rebuilding Europe will therefore give employment to hundreds of thousands of men. Then the commerce com-merce of the old country will be revived re-vived and the services of hundreds of thousands more will be required. In fact, times should be good in the belligerent bel-ligerent countries when peace is declared. de-clared. A few years hence, after the ruined cities have been rebuilt and there is a slowing up commercially, it may be that the burden of taxation on account of the enormous war debts may induce many Kuropeans to leave the land of their birth, but we do not look for any such movement from the belligerent bel-ligerent countries right away. Even the young men of countries not involved in the war may find work on the other side of the Atlantic for years to come, and it is quite possible that many of the aliens now in the Uuited States may be called home to work instead of fight. In any event the immigration question is not causing any great amount of anxiety in this couutry at the present, time. |