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work it in a manner to produce the maximum of 

 NATIONAL wealth and afford employment to the maxi- 

 mum head of population, immense loss of national 

 strength, power, vigour, energy, vitality, and wealth 

 musi result. Will they never realise that want of work, 

 poverty, and a complete derangement of social and 

 economic conditions are but the natural sequel of 

 NATIONAL waste? 



Cannot they see for themselves that because of their False 

 blindness, infatuation, madness; because they have Worn-out 

 allowed false teachers to lead them astray, to lead them ^^''®^* 

 away from the real source of their strength and vitality, 

 from these springs of national productiveness, which 

 are as essential to the well-being of the people as 

 the sun's warmth is to the ripening com; poverty 

 has fallen upon them as a scourge, and that poverty and 

 its attendant horrors will continue to haunt them so 

 long as they cling to false creeds and worn-out beliefs? 



Are the British tax-payers so blind as not to perceive 

 that all official effort to relieve the situation is in vain; 

 that the poor-rates and parochial cesses of whatsoever 

 nature are unavailing, and that their enormous contri- 

 bution of THIRTY-FIVE MILLIONS annually is as easily 

 swallowed up by the great ocean of pauperism as 

 children's sand castles on the beach are swept away by 

 each incoming wave? 



Will they never realise that this Frankenstein 

 monster, which has been created out of the ignorance of 

 a people and the indifference of Governments, has a 

 maw wide and voracious enough to swallow up their 

 ;f 35, 000, 000, and as much more as they may provide, if^ 



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