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Show i f , i GREAT BRITAIN AS A LANDLORD. An eastern paper notes that "There is an increasing in-creasing tendency on the part of British immigrants immi-grants to proceed to other parts of the empire rather than to foreign countries." V Thr are many rsnffn why they should want to go to Canada and Australia. In Canada they can get almost an earldom in extent of land very cheaply, find it on a railroad where one crop will pay for the land and pay for building the house and buying the teams and cows and chickens and other necessaries, and when you tell an Englishman or a Welshman or a Scotchman Scotch-man that, one who all his life has lived from hand to mouth by working hard, instantly the vision comes to him that if that Is true, by next year, or year after at least, he can have as much land as a baron in his neighborhood has, much richer land than the baron has, in a freer country than the baron lives in; and that instead of working just for a living from day to day and from the cradle to the grave, he by the time old age comes can have an estate that will insure him and his a home and plenty as long as the generations of men come and go. Australia is making some great strides. In Canada the immigrant wants to get as far south as possible because of the awful cold in the north'; in Australia he wants to get as far south as possible pos-sible because of the awful heat in the north; but we opine that when the railroad is driven through to a port in northern Australia all that country will be settled, it will be a land of tropical trop-ical fruit and tropical products ; that it will give sugar and fruit, possibly coffee, to the settlers; and the beauty of Australia and Canada both is that behind the farm there are mines enough to keep the government always supplied with money in circulation. We do not wonder that the immigrant from the British isles prefers Australia or Canada or even central Africa to any opportunities that any other land offers, because when that road is finished from Cairo to the Cape, there will be millions and tens of millions of acres of splendid land to be on the highway which will put it within with-in a week's travel of the ocean either way, and there a great empire ought to grow up. Great Britain has shown great good judgment in the lands of the earth that she has taken control of. And after old England is in her cap and slippers the British race will hold control of three-quarters of the solid earth.. |