108 AWAKENING OF ENGLAND. 



his sons has gone to Canada, Uke so many 

 other of the young men m this part of the 

 world, if they have but a chance given to 

 them. I have recently heard from a gentleman 

 in this neighbourhood who knows of forty 

 young fellows who, during 1910, left for 

 America, the States drawing away the brightest 

 and hardiest of them across the Atlantic. 



Possibly the emigration of the best of 

 England's manhood from our rural districts 

 has received a slight check in recent years 

 since the small opening has been given to 

 them to become their own masters. A hard, 

 penurious life may still be in front of them, as 

 hard as that which their fathers endured, but 

 they will, at any rate, gain that priceless gift 

 to most Englishmen — the freedom to carve 

 out their own destiny instead of having it 

 roughly hewn out for them by some taskmaster. 



Not far from Ingham an interesting experi- 

 ment in applying the principle of tenant co- 

 partnership is being tried. 



On the slopes of an old British camp, from 

 whose wooded crest ships that sail the North 

 Sea are visible six miles away, I found the 

 men of the new settlement at work. It was 

 an ideal site on which to earn one's daily bread. 



