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for the working classes in the suburbs, we can but hope that
care will be exercised to prevent the concessions being so
misused as to involve the creation of slums outside London.
The houses to be built should not be too large nor too
crowded on space. Working men, moreover, should be encouraged
to become the owners of their cottage homes. It is
especially to be desired, moreover, that workmen's tickets
should be issued, so far as practicable, to bona-fide workmen
only, so that the suburbs may not be overrun by "outcast
London."
EMIGRATION.
Emigration would seem, at first sight, to be another
means of reducing overcrowding, and the Government did
well in appointing a Committee to inquire into various
schemes which had been proposed, of state-aided emigration
from congested districts of the United Kingdom (London included)
to British Colonies and elsewhere; to examine the
results of schemes that have had a practical trial, and to
report generally on the means and conditions under which
such emigration may be best carried out, and the countries to
which it should be directed, &c.
The Committee, in due course, made a report in which
they state they have no grounds for thinking that the present
condition of the United Kingdom generally, callsforany general
scheme of state-organized colonization or emigration, and
further express the conclusions at which they have arrived,
under twelve headings, none of which, practically, touch our
difficulty, so that we are no further advanced by reason of
this lengthy and painstaking enquiry. That emigration
would be a boon to those who might be assisted to leave this
overcrowded Metropolis goes without saying; but immigration
from the country and abroad would speedily fill up any gaps
in the population.