Those who have left the United Kingdom during 1912 are not the scum of our islands, but the very pick.

And they leave behind, for our politicians to grapple with, a greater proportion of females, of children and of disabled than ever before." (_London Magazine_!) The excess of females over males, already so noteworthy a feature of England's decay, becomes each year more accentuated and doubtless accounts for the strenuous efforts now being made to entrap Irish boys into the British army and navy.
If we compare the figures of Germany and Great Britain, and then contrast them with those of Ireland, we shall see, at a glance, how low England is sinking, and how vitally necessary it is for her to redress the balance of her own excess of "militants" over males by kidnapping Irish youths into her emasculated services and by fomenting French and Russian enmities against the fruitful German people.
Germany 1910, males, 32,031,967; females, 32,871,456; total, 64,925,993.

Excess of females, 739,489.
Great Britain, 1911: England and Wales--Males, 17,448,476; females, 18,626,793; total, 36,075,269.

Excess of females, 1,178,317.
Scotland--Males, 2,307,603; females, 2,251,842; total, 4,759,445.
Excess of females, 144,239.
Total for Great Britain, 40,834,714.

Excess of females, 1,322,556.
Thus on a population much less than two thirds that of Germany Great Britain has almost twice as many females in excess over males as Germany has, and this disproportion of sexes tends yearly to increase.
We read in every fresh return of emigration that it is men and not women who are leaving England and Scotland.