The reflection that an early marriage means the probability of a larger family, and that a large family helps to keep wages low, cannot at present be expected to make a deep impression upon the young unskilled labourer.

The value of restraint after marriage could probably be inculcated with more effect, because it would appeal more intelligibly to the immediate interest of the labourer.

But it is to the growing education and intelligence of women, rather than to that of men, that we must look for a recognition of the importance of restraint on early marriages and large families.
Sec.3.The "Emigration" Remedy .-- The most direct and obvious drainage scheme is by emigration.

If there are more workers than there is work for them to do, why not remove those who are not wanted, and put them where there is work to do?
The thing sounds very simple, but the simplicity is somewhat delusive.

The old _laissez faire_ political economist would ask, "Why, since labour is always moving towards the place where it can be most profitably employed, is it necessary to do anything but let it flow?
Why should the State or philanthropic people busy themselves about the matter?
If labour is not wanted in one place, and is wanted in another, it will and must leave the one place and go to the other.