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 that political capital must not be made out of it. This 

 question directly touches the individual and collective 

 interests of every working man and every tax-payer in 

 the kingdom, and it must go through Parliament 

 as a national measure bearing the sign-manual of a 

 people. 



We must help our people by finding work for them; 

 we must be in a position to say to every able-bodied 

 man and woman in the country — there is no need for 

 you to go to the workhouse because we can provide you 

 with honest work whereby you will be able to support 

 yourself. 



We must be in a position to provide work for all our 

 great mass of unemployed, for every honest man and 

 woman in the land, and then we shaU be able to say — 

 the poor-rates are not for you, but only for those who 

 are unable to work: the aged and infirm, the blind and 

 halt, the cripples, the insane, and those whose bodily or 

 mental condition renders ordinary manual labour im- 

 possible. 



We can employ literally millions of our people in 

 making our o^^^l butter and cheese, in growing our own 

 fruit and vegetables, in producing our own milk, poultry 

 and bacon, in growing our own corn and making our 

 own flour. 



We can, in short, grow practically all our own food, 

 and usefully and honourably employ aU our own people. 

 We can so well employ our own people in our own 

 country that the wasteful drain of emigration will cease 

 for a considerable time, and we shall keep the sturdy and 

 the strong; those pushing, vigorous, brave sons of the 



