368 AWAKENING OF ENGLAND. 



kind after the third generation. As our cinder- 

 heaps increase, let us see to it that the grass 

 of our green pastures does not wither. 



The grave labour problems, with the 

 recurring disturbances assuming greater 

 dimensions as both capital and labour become 

 more highly mobilised, will gather into huge 

 proportions if the people of England remain a 

 landless proletariat. So long as the workers 

 are divorced from the land, so long will the 

 unrest grow. The people are working at 

 breaking-point. 



Not only is the subjective poverty greater 

 amongst the half-educated poor to-day than 

 it ever has been, but the objective poverty has 

 been steadily growing since 1895. We learn 

 from the Board of Trade that though wasres 

 have increased 12-4, prices have increased 19*4. 

 This means that the purchasing power of the 

 wage -earning class has decreased. At the 

 same time the incomes of the wealthy class 

 steadily rise. 



In spite of Insurance Bills little is done to 

 ensure work for the unemployed. No new 

 industries are created. In an age of competitive 

 strife, to put one man to work means displacing 

 another — everywhere, but on our wasted 



