The Life-Blood of the Empire. 





■"p^**^ VERY day sees the desire for 

 ^ organised emigration grow more 



definite and more articulate. The 

 various parts of the Empire, already 

 ' not blind to the value of a systematic 

 migration of settlers from the Mother 

 Country, have now realised that serious work is 

 needed, and at once, to ensure continuous and 

 beneficial arteries of empire in the shape of 

 streams of British subjects going to other parts 

 of the Empire. Only by such a migration can 

 the Dominions be kept truly British, in no other 

 way can the influx of foreign elements be held in 

 check and prevented from gradually exercising a 

 disruptive influence. While the children are 

 being taught what is the Empire and the duties 

 of peopling it, the material ready to hand must be 

 sorted and settled. Naturally, if it is possible to 

 bring about scientific development of the 

 cultivated and cultivatable surface of these 

 islands, the first call for labour will be here and 

 the Dominions must take second place. But 

 there are enough and to spare for the Empire. 

 It is good news that Canada has lost no time 

 in taking the initiative for organising emigration. 

 The Dominion Royal Commission has been 

 entrusted with an inquiry into the matter of 

 migration of population from the Old Country 

 to the Overseas Dominions, and during the 

 autumn will be taking up that subject in the 

 United Kingdom. It is hoped that it will be 

 possible to do something in the way of organis- 

 ing and correlating the various agencies and 

 systems at present in operation. 



It is with very great pleasure that we are able 

 to record a striking success for one phase of 

 Lord Milner's rdgime in South Africa. By his 



Land Settlement Board he laid the foundation of 

 a system of settling the land which bids fair to 

 play a very great part in the history of South 

 Africa. To quote the Bloemfontein cor- 

 respondent of the Daily Mail : — 



The Board was called into being to guide and control 

 the scheme of laud settlement created by Lord Miiner 

 in 1902. It stands justified from every view point ; as an 

 Imperial venture its success is beyond all cavil; as a 

 national asset it is of growing value; as a simple business 

 proposition it has yielded an excellent and increasing 

 percentage. . . . Six hundred first-class yeomen have 

 been absorbed, their brains and muscles are part of our 

 national assets, and the whole business has been done 

 and managed at a 50 per cent, profit to the State. 



The scheme has proved the possibility in South Africa 

 not only of actual settlement but of closer settlement, 

 and when that lesson has been assimilated our history 

 will take a new turn. But in the meantime Lord Miiner 

 has come to his own. The Union Government have 

 carried a Bill through Parliament granting to each 

 settler a freehold of his farm, the Administration taking 

 in return a bond over all outstandings bearing interest at 

 4 per cent., and the men are thus planted squarely on 

 their legs. There is no further need for Lord Milner's 

 Board, and so it dissolves. 



There is a great and abiding glory awaiting 

 the British Minister who first has the initiative — 

 for courage is not needed — to clearly pro- 

 claim that the peopling of the Empire is of 

 supreme importance, and that, recognising 

 this, he is going to take steps to thoroughly 

 organise and systematise emigration. Till then 

 this country must remain open to the charge, 

 which should be unbearable, of caring less for 

 the welfare and future of those of her children 

 who leave these shores than do the lands which 

 receive them. It would seem as if the 

 Dominions had a truer grasp upon the great 

 central idea of Empire than we have in this, 'he 

 Imperial Motherlanri. 



THE VALUE OF THE HUMAN UNIT: By G. J. ADAMS. 



As a regular reader of the Review of she has peopled her great west to such an 

 Reviews I have read with interest your articles extent that she is forging ahead, and need 

 on emigration, which are excellent from start never look back again, although she could 

 to finish and have come none too soon. I do absorb 500,000 men and women a vear for the 

 not think that there is one of the great Euro- next fifty years and never cry halt. With 

 pean nations that, if she had been situated Australia, however, it is quite different. Sixty 

 as England has been for the last fifty years, years ago it was to Australia that people flocked 

 would not long since have organised and sys- in thousands, and then came to a halt and 

 tematised her emigration to her Colonies, and, 

 in connection with them, both to their benefit 

 and her own. 



Canada has done her own work so well 

 during the last twenty years, since the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway was built to Vancouver, that 



discouragement when there should have been 

 encouragement of every kind and assisted 

 passages. 



WHAT AUSTRALIA SHOULD HAVE DONE. 



It would have paid New South Wales, \'ic- 



