It is said that Mr. Baldwin will produce the Unionist
programme when he. speaks at Bristol on April 25th. We wish that an earlier date had been chosen, but perhaps a large 'part of the programme will be embedded' in the Budget which will be introduced about April 16th. It, is certain that a policy of slum clearance will have a leading place in the programme. Another important. matter—enormously important in our opinion—will be an extension of the present partial schemes of develop- ment and settlement in the Empire. It is not disputed that the figures of unemPloyment have beem greatly, swelled by the decline from the former average of emigra- tion—regrettably and inexplicably low though that average used to be. No Goverrithent could possibly have a more inspiring theme than to popularize the Empire;- to present it as a vast single family, and to substitute for the present stupid talk about exile the idea that anywhere in the Empire there is a new home and a great opportunity for every young man of spirit.
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