ALIENS ACT 21 



products on the market at reasonable prices, only 

 by using foreign workmen as directors, it would 

 be better to continue employing foreign directors 

 than to lose the food-products. 



But there are alternatives. Suppose a country 

 to possess large quantities of iron ore of a grade 

 so low that, do what she will, she cannot extract 

 iron economically. And suppose her to have a 

 neighbour who has found out the secret of 

 making low-grade iron ores pay well. The 

 former country can send to the latter a number 

 of intelligent workmen, commissioned to seek 

 employment, to learn thoroughly the best methods 

 of treating low-grade ores, and then to return 

 with the object of starting a new and great 

 industry in their native land. 



There is a country, not far from our shores, 

 in which excellent dairy products are prepared 

 by the farmers. There is, or was a few years 

 ago, in that country, a staff of trained inspectors, 

 whose mission it is to visit, for a fixed fee, any 

 farm on application. By this means the farmer 

 learns in what respects his methods differ from 

 the latest approved methods, as taught in the 

 institution whence the inspectors are sent out. 

 The farmer is thus enabled to correct his errors 

 and bring his methods up to date. 



Either alternative is at the disposal of Great 

 Britain. 



There are reasons for a real Aliens Act, quite 

 apart from those here given, but they are not 

 directly connected with universal military service, 

 nor with the national industries. The present 



