ABSTRACT
The Board of Trade returns for state that emigration is drawing population from the United Kingdom at the rate of approximately three hundred thousand per annum: in other words, one person out of every hundred and forty is destines to leave the Mother Country and settle within the Colonies or under the flag of a foreign Power. The only solution seems to lie in a recourse to colonial emigration. In many ways the home country does reap benefits from emigration. The Swiss emigration laws are probably the most stringent in the matter. The departure of any citizen who had not completed military training; it appointed, also, a special staff of officials to regulate the emigration agencies. A large Imperial grant to be votes to encourage emigration, the labour parties, which are extremely powerful in many of the overseas possessions, would feel alarmed at the consequences and would probably cry out for additional immigration restrictions.
