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But by the 1880'e enthusiasm for emigration "on declining.
Arch claimed in 1898 (probably as an afterthought) - r'.. I only
looked upon emigration ao'a dicacrae1ble noceseity, not as a
thing to be recocrionded"
(1) Reports were received that the
U. S. A. and the colonies wore also suffering from trade
depressions, which would only be c ravatod by an influx of
labour from Europe. At the rraden Union Congress in 1886 an
anti-emigration proposal was passed by eighty-oovon votes to
eleven* A representative of Sheffield Trades Council suggested
that land reform night come before a state aided emigration
scheme and Arch)to cheern)wondered if money spent on foroign vary
might not be better spent in reforms at home to create a greater
consumer demand for British products.
(a)
fihua in the era of
Imperialism$ emigration was no longer very popular na a recedy+ for
deprooeion. Thora was aiu* of a preferonco for an insular plan
of oocial reform to the glorios of an overseas Eipire.
To como axtont promotion of omigration was roplacod by
hostility to iz igrmtion into England# » mainly by Jowu from
Central and Eastern Zuropo. From 1888 onwards tho T. V, C, in most
years paocod resolutions calling for tho curtoilmont of, ediert
pauper immigration, which it was claimed, depressed the wagon of
(1) Josoph Arch, 02 cit1 p. 219.
(2) don Uniaa CanMwý orm RAportniý 1886.
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