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ture to hazard the remark, that the more money 

 government lays out in employing the operatives at 

 home, the more rich will the government become, 

 and the country the more thriving. The unem- 

 ployed operatives can be carried with much less 

 expense to the Highlands of Scotland, or to the 

 unimproved lands of England and Ireland, and set 

 down there with so much land to improve, than to 

 set them down in Canada. For a stubborn proof 

 of this, look to the Island of Islay. See what has 

 been done by the worthy proprietor, Walter F. 

 Campbell, Esq. of Islay and Sbawfield, M. P. and 

 his brother Captain Campbell. They some years 

 ago encouraged a colony of operative weavers from 

 Glasgow, — allotted a piece of uncultivated waste 

 land to each of them. Now they present you with 

 a beautiful clean thriving village. The rough parts 

 of nature are turned into fertile gardens and pas- 

 ture fields. Here too you will see what judicious 

 management can effect in planting wastes. You 

 are delighted with extensive and thriving planta- 

 tions, where wood was never known to grow before. 

 My opinion is, that the greater the population of 

 any country is, if industrious, the more rich, strong, 

 and independent will it become. I should like to 

 know who most deserves a statue, — the man who im- 

 proves waste lands, beautifies and enriches the 

 country by employing and encouraging an indus- 

 trious population ; or the man who conquers mid 

 lays waste kingdoms. 



