BRITISH EMIGRATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 April 1922, Page 5

BRITISH EMIGRATION.

SOME TRENCHANT VIEW'S. BY A POLITICAL ECONOMIST. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received April 9, 11.25 p.m. London, April 9. Mr. Harold Cox (editor of the Edinburgh Review and a prominent political economist), in an article in the Sunday Times, asserts that inter-imperial emigration cannot solve the problem of over-population in England, where the population is increasing by thousanas daily. He contends that birth control is the only solution. Unfortunately the State, by a lavish system of doles, is encouraging the least desirable classes to multiply indefinitely. The article points out that the Dominions demand is for agricultural workers, these being the only people that England is least willing to part with. Also that Australia and Canada, while increasing the local output of manufactured goods, is buying more largely from the United States, instead of restricting their purchased to Britain.

These considerations are put forward, not with any idea of discouraging any voluntary scheme of emigration, but in the hope o-f destroying the illusion that there is much to be expected from the scheme of State-aided emigration now loudly advocated. The colonies have grown into great States, strong enough to be self-de-pendent. They have no right to beg us to tax ourselves in order to supply them with our best people. The doles to emigrants which Colonel Amery advocates, will not effectively diminish the doles to the unemployed, which Colonel Amery rightly denounces. They only add to the burdens of the British taxpayer.