If boys and girls are kept at school till sixteen, older and weaker people will be able to get work which these boys have, but ought not to have.

The nation demands a vigorous manhood, but the nation cannot have it without some sacrifice, which means doing without child labour, for child labour is the destruction of virile manhood.
Emigration is often looked upon as the great specific.

But the multiplication of agencies for exporting the young, the healthy, and the strong to the colonies causes me some alarm.

For emigration as at present conducted certainly does not lessen the number of the unfit and the helpless.
It must be apparent to any one who thinks seriously upon this matter that a continuance of the present methods is bound to entail disastrous consequences, and to promote racial decay at home.

The problem of the degenerates, the physical and mental weaklings is already a pressing national question.