6S The Landed Interest. 



it may be successfully overcome, as the example 

 of Germany has proved hi the tens of thousands 

 of her people who have gone to the United 

 States. There, 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. In- 

 stead of struggling at home as labourers, or culti- 

 vators of small patches of land where nothing 

 but the most sparing frugality enables them to 

 live, the working men of all countries are invited 

 and assisted by Australia to take a share on 

 equal terms with our own people in the great 

 enterprise of colonising a new continent, where 

 liberty, order, and remunerative employment 

 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- 



ofthe 



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 fj-om an equal extent of land. Our average 



