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CONTENTS 



Chap. I. The Curse of Poverty— Cause and Effect 



and Palliative Measures pcigs i 



II. Shortag-e of Work in Our Trades and 

 Manufactures — How to Employ the 

 Surplus Population 6 



III. The Sacrifice of Ag-riculture — Some of 



the Cost 14 



IV. Destru6tion of the National Industry — 



Alarming Effecft on the Labour Market 22 



v» V. Poverty not a Necessity — Contrasts in 



Jj^ Home and Foreign Statistics 33 



^ VI. National Pauperism and Taxation — 



2 Poverty and Private Charities 41 



13 VII. How War would intensify Poverty — 



Grave Peril to the Nation 52 



^ VIII. Some Results of Fiscal Maladministra- 



^ tion — The Gainsborough Commission 58 



g IX. The German Pauper Question — Poor- 



Houses and their Inmates 71 



X. Tariffs and the Price of Bread — German 



Methods and EfFe(5ls 82 



XI. Pauperism as a Result of Free Trade — 

 ;^35,ooo,ooo required annually in Poor- 

 Rates 94 



XII. The Incubus of Taxation — Fiscal and 



Poor Law Reforms 108 



XIII. Prevention of National Waste — The 



Means to the End 124 



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