parlors, and chambers, the style of living and equipage, he exclaimed, ' 'Ameri- 

 can farmers live like princes." 



The highest type of society is doubtless that in which every maD is a land- 

 lord, has a home of his own, which he takes pride and pleasure in rendering 

 beautiful and comfortable. While thus developing his home he is developing 

 his manhood and that of his children, and we can assure Lord Morpeth and all 

 other English and French nobles, that while we have no titled and hereditary 

 nobility in America, we have multitudes of noble lords, for most of our farmers 

 and mechanics are landlords, owninsr their own homes, and, so far as they be- 

 have nobly, we can see no reason why they are not as much entitled to the ap- 

 pellation of noblemen as those who claim this dignity by the accident of birth, 

 possibly with few noble traits of character. 



It is this idea of homes for the million which has attracted, and is attracting 

 to this country such multitudes from all parts of the world. Chinese and Jap- 

 anese, Greeks and Jews, Norwegians and Germans, Spaniards and Portuguese, 

 Frenchmen, Englishmen, Scotchmen, Irishmen, in short, men from all the na- 

 tions of the earth are thinking, saying and acting, "There is a home for us in 

 America," and we say to all these, God speed you on your way to your new and 

 better country. If you are only men, with aspirations for a higher manhood, 

 we most cordially welcome you and promise to you new and better homes. No 

 matter if yoa have been degraded, oppressed, and kept in ignorance in your na- 

 tive lands, have lived in hovels and shanties, we feel assured that our free 

 schools will elevate you and fit you for the privileges of freemen, and that here 

 you will live in a ceiled house, in many respects an improvement on that in 

 which King Solomon lived. An Irishman, on his first arrival in this country, 

 may build for himself a shanty, but by the powerful, though silent, influence of 

 example, he soon exchanges.it for a more comfortable and pretentious d celling. 



Great as has been the emigration to this country in search of a home, we are 

 confident that in the future we shall see a still greater influx of foreigners. 

 There has recently arrived on our shores one of the foremost men of England, 

 the representative and champion of the working classes, Joseph Arch, who 

 having labored for years to better the condition of the English yeomanry, and 

 being discouraged by the fact that the land of England is owned by a few large 

 proprietors, who are either unwilling or unable to sell, so that it is almost an 

 impossibility for an English farmer to own a homestead, has come to this coun- 

 try, as he says, to spy out the land, and learn where his countrymen can bes^ 

 locate and enjoy a home of their own. Mr. Arch is no common man. In 

 physique and character he is a specimen of the robust, energetic, thorough-bred 

 Anglo-Saxon. With broad, square shoulders, portly body, calm, but keen grey 

 eyes, he rises before his audience in modest simplicity, yet with such a manly 

 look that, though destitute of the graces of oratory, his thoughts fall upon his 

 hearers like the strokes of a sledge hammer. The nobility of England have en- 

 deavored to silence him by persuasion and purchase, but he could not be per- 

 suaded, bought, nor silenced. I cannot give you a better idea of the bound 

 down condition of English laborers, living miserably in their hovels, and de- 



