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factmer a market is the great requirement, the last stage 

 in the process, the final field where the harvest is to be 

 garnered. The more free and intelligent the people, the 

 more even tlie distribution of wealth, the greater con- 

 sumers will that people be, and the better market they 

 will furnish. Especially for new manufactures must the 

 maiket be the home market. Wealth and education, 

 civilization and culture, become not alone the desire and 

 aspiration of a people engaged in varied pursuits, but also 

 their highest material interest. The character of the 

 people flows naturally from their occupations. 



The changeless laws of trade, of supply and demand, 

 work harmoniously with the inevitable laws of progress 

 and development in a people engaged in constant rivalry 

 and struggle to better their condition, when the rivalry and 

 struggle are free for all, and the conditions upon which 

 all may enter into them are equal. 



The invitation to immigration to such a Colony is to the 

 intelligent, the industrious and ambitious. Wherever 

 man is waging an unequal contest with power and 

 privilege to reach a higher plane of existence, and 

 wherever the hope of a new life and a better day has not 

 been utterly crushed in his heart, there that invitation 

 comes freighted with promise and radiant with the light of 

 a new dawn. It is a magic voice that invites to equal 

 rights and equal opportunities, that tells of the open door 

 to every avocation in which man's industry can be pro- 

 fitably employed. It speaks to those who seek not a 

 temporary change, a mere season of adventure and exper- 

 iment to be followed by return to old surroundings, but a 

 permanent change and an enduring lot in life, entirely 

 freed from the thrall of old conditions ; to those by whom 

 old forms and old wrongs have been endured till they have 

 become hated ; to those who have no reverence for the 

 past because it is the past, and are eager to embrace a 

 future of promise ; to those to whom country and native 

 land have given nothing but a birth place, and denied them 



