Opening up the Country. 



By J. E. Tinne. 



IHIS stereotyped phrase is so loosely applied to 

 every conceivable scheme or measure which 

 any one individual calculates to be for the 

 advantage of himself and his class, that it becomes 

 seriously worth our while to decide what is a useful 

 development and what on the other hand is the telescopic 

 operation of opening out, previous to shutting up, our 

 existing stability and resources. 



Easy access to fertile land, steady markets for our 

 produce at home and abroad, judicious attempts to 

 render our whole population more dependent on their 

 own industry and prudence instead of pauperising their 

 mind and body by a pseudophilanthropic government, 

 the discovery of new products and new industries from 

 our almost unknown wealth in land and forest, and the 

 introduction of new scientific and mechanical appliances, 

 all these may justly be included in the phrase opening 

 up the country ; but side by side with this we must 

 remember that there is a too fatal facility in over-rapidly 

 borrowing money for these purposes, often followed by 

 an overwhelming burden of public debt, which may 

 cripple current finance and established interests. 



Since 1884, the great peril which threatened cane 

 sugar, in the enormous increase of bounty-fed beetroot 

 sugar, has almost passed away. The ability of Baron 

 De Worms, backed by the generous support of British 



