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The Nineteenth Century , No 182, Apr 1892 [‎74r] (152/244)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (120 folios). It was created in Apr 1892. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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1892 IMPRESSIONS OF NORTH-WEST 637
Government to the half-breeds, in the immediate neighbourhood of
"Winnipeg, are among the richest in the province. Two hundred
and forty acres were given to each member of a family, but were sold
by them to speculators for little or nothing. These purchasers are
mostly absentees, and the lands thus acquired are held for speculative
values by people residing in Lower Canada and England, while the
city of Winnipeg has to suffer from thousands of acres of soil lying
idle in its immediate vicinity, which if occupied and cultivated would
add enormously to the prosperity of the handsome and progressive
capital of Manitoba. The same state of things exists, more or less,
in connection with every city and town throughout the entire North-
West, and it is most sincerely to be hoped that the men who have
helped so far by residence, pluck, and enterprise to organise these
centres of industry and reclaim the country around from prairie
savagery will soon demand from the Dominion Legislature the
power to tax the absentee owners of all lands—and residential
owners, to a less extent—so as to compel them either to put the soil
of the country to its legitimate use, or to pay in taxation to local
authorities for the privilege of holding it in idleness.
No matter what one's views upon emigration may be—and mine
are very radical and have been frequently stated—it is impossible to
e visit this vast and naturally rich region of the North-West, with its
1 all but limitless extent of rich loamy-subsoiled land, without a
yearning for the transplantation of some of the dense population of
parts of Great Britain to these fruitful prairies. When one has to call
to mind the slum-life of London, the squalid quarters of the working
poor in Liverpool, Glasgow, Manchester, and other large centres of
ie crowded social life, and the conditions under which tens of thousands
^ of such people live—while, on the other hand, he views, day after
a day, millions of acres of arable soil hungering for the application of
food-producing labour, it is impossible not to have one's opinions
influenced more or less in favour of a movement which might ease
and tend to eradicate these demoralising conditions of labour-life in
Great Britain, while removing their victims to the advantages of
those all but unpeopled regions of bracing air, and healthful life, and
latent opportunities of a better and brighter social existence. It
would, however, be a huge mistake to bring some of the class of
people who overcrowd our cities at home out to the North-West.
They are not the kind of colonists whom the country would suit, or
who could help in its development. Men or women who work in
factories or employ themselves in the smaller handicrafts and miscel
laneous occupations of centres of complex industrial organisation,
would be like fishes out of water where the main, if not only, form of
labour is in connection with land. Those who have been brought up
to agriculture, or who have strength and willingness to work the
land, are the class of colonists who are wanted, and to whom
VOL. XXXI—NO. 182 XX

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The file contains a copy of the journal The Nineteenth Century. A pencil note on the cover of the journal, in the hand of Lady Pelly, indicates that Lewis Pelly was being read an article from this journal on Easter Sunday five days before he died.

The article he and his wife were reading has been marked on the cover 'Prospects of Marriage for Women, by Miss Clara E Collet' which appears on folios 24-31.

A second annotation, written by Sir William Henry Rhodes Green, gives the date of Lewis Pelly's death and is provided as context to Lady Pelly's comments.

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1 volume (120 folios)
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The journal contains one set of foliation and three sets of original pagination.

The principal foliation for this volume appears in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio, using a pencil number enclosed with a circle.

The three sets of original printed pagination that appear are as follows:

The advertisments at the front of the journal are paginated as i-xxxii; the articles themselves are paginated as 525-712; and the Sampson Low, Marston & Company publications list at the rear of the journal has been paginated as 1-8.

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