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motives, bolster up a system which long experience has 

 proved to be as faulty as it is fatal. 



And what of those who stay at home to share with 

 their wives and families in the evils which a misguided 

 fiscal policy must necessarily produce? 

 Are we Have they no grievance against their rulers? Can they 



Content? i . • 



look around and say — We are content? Is work so plenti- 

 ful with them, so stable, so remunerative as to cause 

 them to say, We have nothing to complain of? Can they 

 say that our professions, trades and industries are so 

 exigent in their demand for labour that a man is snapped 

 up by one or the other of them the moment he is out of 

 employment? Do we, as a people, in short, find that the 

 labour supply is so scanty, the demand so great, and 

 employment of all kinds so certain and so well paid as to 

 have justified the destruction of our great land industry 

 years ago? 



These and similar questions we should ask ourselves 

 to-day in all seriousness, and with a firm determination 

 to get an answer of so unmistakable a nature as will 

 clear up, once and for all, much that is doubtful and 

 obscure. 



We don't want to be humbugged any longer by the 

 specious promises of political economists, or by a host of 

 publicists who write glibly enough on every subject 

 under the sun, and who, by the subtlety of their argu- 

 ments and flowery rhetoric, can almost prove that black 

 is white. Nor are we to be cajoled any more by this 

 pohtical party or that, who, to serve its own interests, 

 will set up any cry or party catchword just to attract 

 the Jvotes of the large, easily-deluded section of the 



