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292 EMIGRATION AS A PREVENTIVE AGENCY.
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a society is to be desired , except so far as is necessary to secure support and give _assLirance of usefulness ; but it is to be hoped that it
will be enabled rapidly and widely to extend its operations . To come now to the children , whose reformation and prevention
hopeful from crime reformatory is by many effort considered . The the question most hopeful is arising , if not in its the most only
, practical shape , what is to be done with them on leaving our reformatory and industrial schools ? There are the children ready
and fit to work , but is the work to be had ready and fit for them ? Managers and matrons of schools continually say that there is no
difficulty in finding situations for their children , but that so soon as they are placedespecially the girls when received as inmates of
re-, spectable families , difficulties arise . Sometimes the parents visit by stealth the houses where they live , and entice them to evil , luring
them back to their old evil companionships . Their antecedents are well knownone informing of the other , till it is impossible that they
, can maintain the powerful preventive principle of self-respectdepending , in all but the strongest minds , on the respect of others .
In short , they are frequently tempted to their fall . Besides , every reformed child , whose industrial education has been carefully
attended to and who obtains a good situation in consequence , takes the lace of the child of the poor but honest working man .
Emigration p here again presents a solution of the question . Hundreds of band a few girls have been sent to the colonies from our
reformatory oys and industrial schools . The matron of the Bloomsbury Industrial School has twice proceeded to Canada with a little band
of the picked girls of the institution under her care . The result , so far as can be ascertained , has been most satisfactory . In three
hours affcer her arrival she could have disposed of the whole of the irlsbut it was not desirable to place them in one town , where
they g , could hold communication with one another and so create some of the evils which had been felt at home ; they were therefore
placed widely apart and with people whose characters were of ascertained respectability . She states that she could then have
disposed of two hundred as readily as of twenty . Without a matron to take charge of these girls during the journey and to
dispose of them judiciousl y on their arrival , the dangers of emigrationowing to the temptations that would surround them from the
moment , they were freed from superintendence , would render such a mode of disposal wholly objectionable . On the other hand sending
out a small number of girls under a matron is an expensive process , and as such is not attainable by many institutions . But might not
some plan be adopted to meet this difficulty ? Might not a depot as it werecall it " Industrial Home" or some similar name , be formed
in this , very town of Liverpool , supported by a union of the industrial institutions throughout the country , with a resident and
a travelling matron , whither the children who gained the
emigration prize for steadiness and proved honesty might be drafted , for
292 Emigration As A Preventive Agency.
292 EMIGRATION AS A PREVENTIVE AGENCY .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1859, page 292, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011859/page/4/
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