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system of advances, because they have not the 

 means of cultivating the little holdings around 

 their own homesteads, and to expect those who 

 are poorer still, to find means to migrate, and 

 then funds for a year's support to enable them to 

 settle, does not appear much wiser. But it is ar- 

 gued, that no such expectation is entertained that 

 it is the business of capitalists and speculators to 

 provide means for these wants, as well as for all others 

 of their position. Now if out of deference to the 

 argument, we admit the correctness of this view, and 

 consider the question as one simply of labor and 

 capital, it cannot be denied, that, the admitted object 

 of Government being to reclaim these wastes, it is a 

 part of its business to co-operate, at least, in trans- 

 porting labor to where capital, on its invitation, has 

 been accumulated for the purpose, but which, for 

 the want of it, is unemployed. Again, since it has 

 been shown that the labor of the whole of India 

 as compared with its area, is short of the average 

 of European countries, that it would be politic to 

 endeavour to prevent the labor that is wanting 

 in India, being diverted to other countries, will 

 I think be conceded. In this view, then, were the 

 Indian Legislature to pass an Act prohibiting foreign 

 emigration, it would only be following a course 

 that would doubtless be adopted by most European 

 Governments under similar circumstances. But such 

 is not necessary here. Since the passing of the Act 



