at they
are suited in character, the victims of misfortune and circumstances
rather than of vice, having had some acquaintance or connection with
the land in their past life, and having also an earnest desire to
raise themselves and their children in the world."

Now two of the "requisites" he mentions are, "that the land should be
cheap as well as suitable" and "that markets also with accessibility
and convenience of location should be borne in mind," two rather
difficult requisites to be found together. Again, in the above quotation
he lays down other provisos; among these being one that the people
selected should have had some acquaintance or connection with the land
in their past lives, a rather indefinite proviso in itself, but, from a
list of poor men out of work or in irregular or casual employment in
London and the other large cities in England in 1901 and 1906, compiled
by Mr. Wilson Fox, we find that out of a total of 8,793 such men, ninety
per cent were town born.[84] We also find in New York City in the spring
of 1908, that out of a total of 185 destitute men, about eighty per cent
were town born.[85] That then leaves ten per cent in the case of England
and twenty per cent in the case of New York City from which to select or
choose the ones needed for a colonizing enterprise.

Mr. Fox has also shown in his investigations:

1. That the countrymen who migrate to London are mainly the best youth
of the villages.

2. That the incomers usually get the pick of the posts, especially
outdoor trades.

3. Country immigrants do not to any considerable extent directly recruit
the town unemployed who are, in the main, the sediment deposited at the
bottom of the scale, as the physique and power of application of the
town population tends to deteriorate.[86]

The conclusion is then, that it would be difficult to get the men
according to Mr. Haggard's requirements, and difficult to get the land
according to his requirements, and even if such were obtained, for
reasons already stated there is no justification for a large colonizing
enterprise in the two experiments described in this chapter.

Examples of Colonists taken from Ft. Amity by the author in January,
1908.

No. 1.

Elderly man. Widower. Had three grown-up children in the Colony at
various times. Had one son a colonist with farm of his own. Was not a
Salvationist. Came from Chicago where he was a tailor. Had a farm near
the railroad d