i8 THE CHANGES NEEDED 



by foreigners. In the absence of a sufficiently 

 drastic Aliens Act, fully put in force, this is 

 what would certainly happen. 



There is a second reason for an Aliens Act, 

 and this reason is such that no time should be 

 lost before passing the Act and enforcing its 

 full powers. At the present time young men 

 in numbers are leaving the country at one side, 

 while foreigners, too many of them undesirable, 

 are entering at the other side. The young men 

 now leaving Great Britain are the very men she 

 ought to keep, the foreigners now entering Great 

 Britain are the very men she ought to keep out. 

 She will have to do so in order to make universal 

 service a success. 



Such an Aliens Act should have two leaves. 

 On one should be shown what sum a foreigner 

 who wishes to enter Great Britain must first pay 

 down ; and that sum should be large enough to 

 insure that none will enter but really good work- 

 men, men who will not take low wages, and who 

 are so accustomed to a certain degree of comfort 

 that they will spend nearly the whole of their 

 wages where they work. Such men, driven from 

 their own country by persecution, have been 

 known, in the distant past, to bring good fortune 

 to the country of their adoption : they brought 

 their own capital, which remained in the country 

 of their adoption : they sent nothing out of it. 

 But Great Britain at this moment is facing a 

 crisis : she is forced in these hard, striving days 

 to fix a very strict limit even to these importa- 

 tions. 



