68 THE LANDED INTEREST. 



it may be successfully overcome, as the example 

 of Germany has proved in the tens of thousands 

 of her people who have gone to the United States. 

 There, and in North-West Canada, and in the vast 

 continent of Australia, there is room enough to 

 take, with advantage, the surplus population of 

 every country in Europe for many generations. 

 Instead of struggling at home as labourers or cul- 

 tivators of small patches of land where nothing 

 but the most sparing frugality enables them to 

 live, the working-men of all countries are invited 

 by Australia and North America to take a share 

 on equal terms with our own people in the great 

 enterprise of colonising new fields of labour, 

 where liberty, order, and remunerative employ- 

 ment are offered to all comers ; where the 

 climate is pure and healthy for Europeans, and 

 where every industry, agricultural, manufacturing, 

 or mining, affords a field for enterprise. 

 The result A system is best tested by its fruits. Com- 



of the 



system pared with all other countries, our threefold 



compared 



with that plan of landlord, farmer, and labourer appears 



of other 



countries to yield larger returns, with fewer labourers, and 



shows 



larger f rom an equal extent of land. Our average 



