text:  It is monstrous to think that whereas for many years past for mere slackness of labour we have been encouraging emigration among the productive classes of our countrymen to a very great degree; draining as it were the mother country to found the colonies and therein resorting to the last step which a paternal government even in times of the greatest necessity should adopt--now when a new experiment or social crisis--call it which you will--has arisen when labour has again reached the point where the demand exceeds the supply we are to admit an influx of strangers amongst us and thereby entail upon ourselves and posterity the evils of prospective pauperism