s own
resources in a favorable rural environment, will be more likely to
succeed than a man who is taken out with a number of others to form a
colony. The man left to his own resources will rise to the occasion, as
so many have done in both Canada and the United States, who have
migrated from city to country and made successful farmers and citizens,
while, on the other hand, the man who feels dependent on an
organization, which is responsible to the public for his success, and
its own, will blame it for his own lack of efficiency. The Army itself
claims a successful work done along the lines of emigration. In 1905,
through the agency of the Army, 2,500 men were sent out from London to
Canada. This number has since increased every year until in 1907 over
15,000 men were sent out. Many other emigration societies have been very
successful in this work.[82] The emigrants sent out with some
assistance, in many cases, gain new ambitions in life and make
pronounced successes on the new soil. As regards the cost, the following
quotation may be submitted. "The cost of emigration to Canada from
England does not amount to more than L10 a head, and some of the
societies, especially those maintained by women, seem to be successful
in securing repayment of at least a part of the money advanced. In other
words, $300,000.00, which Mr. Rider Haggard assumes as a necessary sum
for forming a colony of 1,500 families, would enable at least 6,000
families to go out as emigrants."[83] With regard to conditions in the
large cities of the United States and other countries, we believe that
the same arguments would apply, and that, in every case, assisted
emigration will be found far more feasible and beneficial than any
system of colonization. Again, for reasons already given, in addition to
there being six thousand families aided by emigration, for the same sum
as fifteen hundred families could be by colonization, the relief given
would be far preferable. In other words, emigration has been proved
successful, while colonization has not.

Coming back to the conclusions reached by Mr. Haggard on his
recommendations to the English government: Mr. Haggard, after stating
that the two experiments, outside of a slight failure of finance, seemed
to him to be eminently successful, says that, given certain requisites,

"It will, I consider, be strange if success is not attained even in
the case of poor persons taken from the cities, provided th