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stability, yet these conditions actually exist in 

 our empire to-day. 



Leaving India out of consideration — for its 

 peoples (with the exception of a few warlike 

 races) do not count as effective population in 

 that they could do little to defend the Empire — 

 we have an empire twenty times the size of 

 the German empire, peopled by some 56,000,000, 

 or 4,000,000 less than the population of the 

 German empire. Fifty-six millions is not a 

 large enough population for the vast area of our 

 dominions. 



From the lack of any authority to guide our 

 population we have lost during the past fifty 

 years millions of our best men who have gone 

 to the United States. Millions of the best 

 citizens who now bring strength and wealth to 

 the United States might easily have been re- 

 tained within the Empire had due encourage- 

 ment been given them to emigrate to our 

 colonies instead of to the States. 



Every able-bodied citizen is estimated to be 

 worth ;^300 per annum to the country — think 

 of the millions of money we have thus lost! This 

 national and imperial loss must be laid to the 

 charge of the Manchester School ; for decades, 

 owing to its influence, English statesmen let the 

 best of our artisans leave the country, and made 

 no effort to guide these potential units to the 

 younger parts of the Empire. The consequent 



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