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" First of all there is the child, for whom heredity and 

 parental care have, perhaps, done nothing or worse than 

 nothing." 



Later on, in advocating the claims of the British child, 

 on the British public for educational purposes, he con- 

 tinued : 



"Your Parliamentary grants, if you add the exchequer 

 contributions, as you ought to, were £13,359,000; sums 

 raised by local rates were £11,785,000, a total of 

 £25,144,000. That is what it cost the State to recognise 

 its duty to the children of the community." 



In face of the fact that £25,000,000 of the British tax- 

 payers' money is spent on educating the British children, 

 and £16,000,000 is spent on feeding and clothing the poor 

 and needy a7id the children, to utter that wicked lie is 

 worse than wicked, it is criminal. 



As a matter of fact education is compulsory, and it 

 was made so because it was found that the poor would 

 not send their children to school; and, as the Chancellor 

 of the Exchequer pointed out parental care has, perhaps, 

 done nothing or worse than nothing to help the poor 

 children of this country; and yet, in spite of this well- 

 known fact, the so-called Socialists publish and put into 

 circulation among the children of the poor so monstrous 

 and mischievous a falsehood. 



This is just the doctrine that SociaUstic leaders should Anarchy not 



1 ,0 • 1- Socialism 



not teach, because it is anarchy and not Socialism 

 they are advocating, and the British people don't want 

 anarchy and bloodshed. Moreover, this doctrine is emi- 



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