Nay, it increases the evil, for it secures to our country an ever-increasing number of those who are absolutely unfitted to fulfil the duties of citizenship.
Yet emigration might be a beneficent thing if it were wisely conducted on a comprehensive basis, which should include a fair proportion of those that are now excluded because of their unfitness.
Are we to go on far ever with our present method of dealing with those who have been denied wisdom and stature?
Who are what they are, but whose disabilities cannot be charged upon themselves, and for whom there is no place other than prison or workhouse?
Yet many of them have wits, if not brains, and are clever in little ways of their own.

At home we refuse them the advantages that are solicitously pressed upon their bigger and stronger brothers.

Abroad every door is locked against them.

What are they to do?
The Army and Navy will have none of them! and industrial life has no place for them.
So prison, workhouse and common lodging-houses are their only homes.
Wise emigration methods would include many of them, and decent fellows they would make if given a chance.

Oxygen and new environment, with plenty of food, etc., would make an alteration in their physique, and regular work would prove their salvation.