ALIENS ACT 19 



On the second leaf should be shown what 

 each foreign workman whose condition appears 

 unsatisfactory must pay for the privilege of 

 remaining in Great Britain, and that amount 

 should be sufficient to insure the country against 

 its present depletion of capital, arising from the 

 remittance abroad of foreign workmen's savings. 

 Suppose each such workman to remit abroad 

 periodically every farthing he could scrape up, 

 he might send abroad annually, in spite of his 

 low wages, living as he does in disgusting slums, 

 quite a considerable sum. The number of such 

 workmen in Great Britain being large, an im- 

 portant sum in this way most probably goes 

 annually abroad, and it goes in the form of 

 exports, including gold, for which no imports 

 are received in exchange. Our exports are thus 

 constantly swollen by this depletion of British 

 capital ; and for this there never is and never 

 can be any return. The men who oust our own 

 workmen, or prevent their return to work, injure 

 the country likewise by taking away its capital. 

 Moreover, men who receive little, and desire to 

 save all they can of that little, spend but little ; 

 such men, therefore, do little themselves towards 

 creating a demand for commodities, and they 

 prevent others from doing so. 



The duty of Government in this matter is 

 sufficiently clear ; it is to act decisively and 

 without delay. 



Some people do not like the idea of such an 

 Act, because Great Britain is a free country, free 

 to all, to enter or go away as they please. This 



