276 NEW TRACKS IN NORTH AMERICA. 
180,000,000 thalers. It must be added that those who are 
resolved to try their strength abroad are by no means our 
weakest elements. Their continuous stream may be compared 
to a well-equipped army, which, leaving the country annually, 
is lost to it for ever. A ship loaded with emigrants is oft on 
looked upon as an object of compassion. It is, nevertheless, 
in a politico-economical point of view, generally more valuable 
than the richest cargo of gold dust.’ 
“The Kansas Pacific Railway Company has organise 
immigration to its lands. It has agents in Europe who tel 
of the resources of Kansas, and induce people to seek a homé 
law go together across the Continent; and in less than ten 
years we shall see upon the lines of diss roads and their out-| 
lets at least three millions of the best population of Northe 2 
Europe—farmers, graziers, mechanics, and miners. Reckon | 
up their worth at 1,500 dollars a head ; add to the produce : 
the quantity of coin they will bring, 100 Sulit each person ; 
then say if, in 4,800,000 ,000 dollars added to the wealth of the 
country, our Govenndaa cannot find authority and courage to 
guarantee the interest of the bonds issued to assist in building 
the roads.” 
Although the Prussian statistician mourns over the loss of 
his emigrating countrymen, we in England are not justified 
in joining him in his regrets. The long-continued misunder- 
standing between capital and labour which exists in this 
| country has done much to assist other European nations in| 
_-‘Yaising their manufactories to a level with our own. We are. 
ee longer the workshop of the world. We have more cotton- 
