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Again, there may take place in an industrially 

 stagnant community a large exodus of its people. 

 We may suppose that there has come to it tidings of 

 a field of emigration which opens up new prospects 

 of betterment in a fertile country that is calling for a 

 supply of labour to develop its resources. 



The effect upon the community may be comparable 

 to that which we have seen produced by the news of 

 the discovery of a new goldfield. A strong tide of 

 emigration sets in, which continues year after year to 

 carry off numbers from the home population. The 

 prosperity of the first emigrants in their adopted 

 country acts as a continual stimulus to keep up the 

 efflux of men, either single or with families, to a land 

 which seems to promise them a sure improvement of 

 the conditions of their life ; while many are, further, 

 incited to emigrate by the invitations and the pecuniary 

 assistance that reach them from friends and kindred 

 who have prospered in the new settlement. 



Those, therefore, who leave the old home for a new 

 country are not impelled to emigrate in consequence 

 of impoverishment or distress, or from any inability 

 to maintain the standard of living to which they have 

 been accustomed, but solely from the desire which is 

 natural to man of bettering his condition. 



This is the motif of almost all the emigration 

 which we have seen, now for some decades, setting 

 forth from European countries, including our own, 

 even though the labour market in those countries has 

 been constantly expanding. 



