CHAPTER IX 



This review of the resources of the Dominions demon- 

 strates that they are well able to provide for the United 

 Kingdom the means of subsistence which she now 

 draws indifferently from all countries of the earth. A 

 scheme for constituting them for productive purposes 

 a part of the United Kingdom is accordingly physically 

 capable of realisation. 



The importance of such a scheme lies not merely 

 in the ability of these Dominions to produce all the 

 primary products which the United Kingdom now 

 imports, and thus to make her independent of other 

 sources, but in their capacity to produce them while 

 paying high wages and without increasing the price 

 of the product beyond that at which the United 

 Kingdom purchases elsewhere in the markets of the 

 world. This result is attainable only by reason of the 

 enormous stretches of cultivable land, far exceeding 

 the requirements of generations to come, contained 

 within the Dominions. This circumstance and the 

 use of science make the wages of the Dominions as 

 high as possible, and will keep them at the highest 

 even were those countries so to extend their production 

 as to satisfy the whole of the British market. 



It remains to see how the inhabitants of the British 

 Islands could be brought to benefit from such a state 

 of affairs. 



As it is, the inhabitants of the United Kingdom 

 exchange indifferently with all nations of the world 

 and encounter the competition of other countries, and 

 thus the United Kingdom is shackled by the terms 



