WE REQUIRE DEPLETION. 277 
ills, more machinery, more iron-works, and more opera- : 
ves than are required to supply the markets dependent upon 
s. We require depletion. The abject poverty which now 
ares us in the face is becoming unendurable. How can our 
estitute artisans educate their children when they are clothed 
ith rags?—or what do starving parents care for school 
eform? Equilibrium between the demand and supply of 
abour must be attained ; and wholesale emigration is the only 
neans by which this can be accomplished. 
_ The fact of the United States being a foreign country ought 
not to affect the question in the least. Canada, Australia, 
New Zealand, all or any one of our colonies may soon become 
independent of the mother country ; and perhaps it is better for 
both that they should before long dissolve partnership. It is, 
however, our desire, and also greatly to our advantage, to 
Temain on the best terms with our American neighbours. 
With one section of them—the emigrant Irish—this is at 
P esent impossible. They hate us so intensely that, were it 
Possible for them to gain the ascendency, wat would surely 
follow. It should therefore be our aim to maintain the - 
as endency of the Saxon and Teutonic elements in States. 
} The Americans complain of our gross ignorance as regards 
their politics, institutions, and social life ; and although they 
are probably right in this accusation, our ignorance of them 
Certainly finds a counterpart in their ignorance of us. If the 
North was not unanimous in its views as to the desirability 
_ of carrying on war with the South, how could they expect us 
all to be of one mind? Yet most Northerners believe that 
We sided altogether with the South, and they look upon us 
88 enemies in consequence. Again, if they had carefully 
| Watched the state of public opinion here since the war, they 
| Would have perceived that if parties in England were pretty 
