INTRODUCTION XIX 



otherwise be of real service in the domestic economy of the 

 people, must necessarily remain inoperative and useless. 



The author's real object is to reach the " man-in-the-street," 

 the rate-payer and tax-payer, the voter and the elector, and to 

 appeal, on common-sense grounds, in a straightforward practical 

 way, to their reason and business-like instincts, for their verdict 

 on the most crucial and vital questions of the day. 



As the questions and problems involved are fully dealt 

 with in succeeding chapters, and in the synopsis at the end, it 

 is only now necessary to add that if they contribute, in any 

 degree, to the carrying out of the great reforms pleaded for 

 therein, the autlior will have been more tlian repaid for his 

 exertions, which have indeed been a "labour of love" on behalf 

 of his fellow-countrymen and fellow-citizens. 



Hume Towers, Bournemouth. 

 September, 190'J. 



