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were earnestly impressed upon the people._ The salutary effects of the course adapted in this matter are plainly to be seen._ Landowners and capitalists finding that the labor would be removed from this State unless employed within it have used every effort and offered every proper encouragement to prevent laborers from applying to the Government and run the risk of being removed from the State and indeed the demand for labor is greater than the supply there being application in this office for several thousand more laborers than can possibly be procured and the only expense to which the Government has been subjected for what at one time seemed a frightful burden in prospect is the transportation of an insignificant number of persons from one section to another where employment and homes have been framed for them, and the Assistant Commissioner asserts with confidence that there has been no time since the Establishment of the Bureau when industry has been so general and when the elements of prosperity to all classes