The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1027928145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, William http://d-nb.info/gnd/128907487

Title:: The Industrial Revolution

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: The University Press

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: xxii S., S. 404-886

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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EMIGRATION AND THE COLONIES 861 had been previously available!, and whether it was no, in A-D. 1776 the existing economic conditions, the best available means ’ for developing the new lands. But a time had arrived when a better system of recruiting the population could be intro- duced, and Mr*Wakefield rightly attached great importance to every circumstance that might induce good citizens to emigrate ; he was anxious that they should have full political freedom and abundant opportunity for the exercise of their religion?, Besides laying stress on the quality and character of the emigrants, Mr Wakefield insisted on the importance of attracting capital to the Colonies, and the formation of capital in the Colonies. The first point of his programme, which Government adopted? was the proposal to discontinue the practice of making free grants of land; he urged that by selling the unoccupied land it would be possible to prevent boo great diffusion, and to form a fund which might serve to promote and assist the emigration of selected labourers*. The agitation which was commenced by Wakefield is He helped . . oe . . to create important as marking the beginning of the reaction against g new en- the indifference with which the Colonies had been regarded. fi an ® The movement did not make much headway at once, but it §7ve 4 has grown in strength, and given rise to the intense en- thusiasm for imperial development, which was exhibited at the Great Jubilee of Queen Victoria. Wakefield did not regard the settling of mew lands as a mere relief to con- gestion at home; he believed that this form of enterprise would react on the old country, so as to insure still greater prosperity than before. “Colonisation,” he insists, “has a tendency to increase employment for capital and labour at home. * * * The common idea is that emigration of capital t Australian public opinion in 1840 appears to have still been divided on the question whether it was desirable to dispense with this method of recruiting the abouring population. Merivale, Lectures on Colonization (1861), 855. " Wakefield, Art of Colonisation, 55. 3 In 1831 a new departure was taken in the mother colony of Australia, as Lord Ripon instituted the system of disposing of land by public auction; but the practice of making free grants was not altogether discontinued till 1838. In 1840 the Colonial Land and Emigration Commission was created, and the rule was laid lown that the proceeds of land sales should be held in trust by “te Imperial Fovernment for the benefit of that part of the colony in which the land was situated. Jenks, op. cit. 62. t+ Wakefield, 4rt of Colonisation. 44.

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