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15,000 millions sterling, and its income 1,750 millions 

 a year. But there are thoughtful persons, happily 

 growing in number, who have serious misgivings as 

 to the economy of the national household. They think 

 they hear "a noise downstairs," and, with the Scottish 

 national poet, they find it difficult "to keep at times 

 frae being sour, to see how things are shar'd." They 

 are beginning to see that nostrums and palliatives 

 cannot cope with the deep and widespread destitution 

 that exists, and that some scientific methods are 

 necessary to hasten the time when those who are the 

 main producers shall have a larger share in the pro- 

 ducts, the time 



" When wealth no more shall rust in mounded heaps, 

 But, smit with freer hand, shall slowly melt 

 In many streams to fatten lower lands." 



