Emigration as Relief for Overcrowded Labor Markets
The North Wales Miners’ Association takes a very sensible course to relieve the distress of its members. Instead of endeavoring to get up a strike, they appropriate $35 to every member who will emigrate to America, and $70 to those who decide to go to Australia. The simple principle of social economy upon which they base their action is, that the labor-market is overstocked. Now our government would well to appoint an agent to meet each ship-load and conduct them to good land of the public domain, and afford them every facility in getting settled and obtaining a good title to 160 acres. It would be good economy to see to it that none of the members shall get stranded in our already overcrowded cities. Instead of a chance of added pauperism and crime, we might thus insure a reinforcement of productive citizens.—The Advance.