The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGM0NT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1913. BRITISH EMIGRATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 60, 16 July 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1913. BRITISH EMIGRATION.

flie boom iu emigration from the United Kingdom to Canada, Australia, and New Zealand seems to have .produced a certain amount of alarm even in those quarters where the movement of British people to British colonies ought most to have been welcomed, is the opinion expressed by the ' ‘Spectator. ” When the Colonies

ere drawing their supplies of human ie from foreign countries, writers in he English press were forecasting lie possibility that those offshoots of 1 rent Britain might become prodolimiiitly foreign in population. Now nit the process is being reversed and

inada and Australia are being filled

p with good English and Scottish lock, the same people are again linging their hands and declaring ml Britain is being drained of her I el ilood. In reply, the ‘'Spectator” >cs on to point out that an examinaon of facts and figures will show how ttle ground then 1 is at any rate for ■is hit"!' pessimistic theory, and i.vs: "It is true that at the present onuuu the emigration from Scotland so actin' that if more than keeps me with the natural growth in popnfion, with the result that a small ’(•lino lae, set in. When wo con-

sidcr, however, the narrow conditions under which the poorer people in Scotland have to live, whether in town or

in country, we cannot say that inis i

i ece-sanlv an evil. At any rate then

no reason why wo should mu h

content to leave the individual Scot

man to determine for himself whether ho will continue to live under the British Hag in a difficult climate in i lie north of Britain, or whether ho will transfer himself and his home to

another eon a try under the same Hag, where he will had ampler space, and the opportunities for a larger tile. Vt have no right to deny to the citizens

of our country the opportunity ol enlarging their individual lives because

of some theory that the population ui every portion of the kingdom ought always to bo increasing.” The same writer also wants to know what England is going to do with her terrific growth of urban population, and shows that the population ol England and Wales up to 1911 was growing more rapidly than in any previous decade, while the increase in the first ten years

of the twentieth century was consid-j eralily greater than the increase during the whole of the eighteenth cen-j tury. The general conclusion the ■‘Spectator” arrives at after reviewing the whole case is, that Britain lias no need to worry about the stream of people leaving her shores for the newer worlds, and that furthermore there is tin' important political consideration that unless Canada and Australasia are peopled by English emigrants they certainly will be occupied by, peoples of other origin. In particular there is the grave danger that if cannot acquire enough inhabitants ofi British stock she may he overrun hyj Asiatic races. !