32 BRITAIN FOR THE BRITON 



How Britain emasculates her Manhood 



Now, if there is anything in life calculated to rob a man of 

 grit and backbone, of stamina, energy, and stalwart independ- 

 ence, to entirely deprive him of that masculine vigour which 

 is his pride, it is the feeling that the State is always ready to 

 dry-nurse him, to supply him with food, raiment, and light work 

 the moment he feels inclined to accept such aid. 



Such knowledge reduces a man, bit by bit, to a poor, feeble, 

 inert creature, only fit to be cast up as a fleck of frothy scum 

 from the sea of human workers. Men of this type, and there 

 are plenty of them in the great army of toilers, soon fall out of 

 the ranks and drift onward to the workhouses and casual wards, 

 or seek outdoor relief from the many Poor Law offices scattered 

 broadcast all over the kingdom. Thenceforth these flabby 

 specimens of humanity fasten themselves on to these institu- 

 tions and become a lifelong burden to the rate-payers and tax- 

 payers of the country. 



Then there is a great lesson to be learned from the wastrel 

 type : your slouching, dirty, public-house-corner loafer, the 

 frowsy tramp, professional beggar, et hoc genus omne. These 

 creatures muster in their thousands ; they are a curse to the 

 tax-payer, a shame to all honest workers, and a scandal to the 

 country. 



The working man is forced to rub shoulders with the loafer 

 daily, and he cannot escape his touch. He swells the ranks of 

 the honest unemployed in their labour demonstrations merely 

 for what he can get out of it, but he has no intention of doing 

 any harder work than this. He makes a brave show in all 

 such processions, because of his rags and tatters, and because 

 his name is legion, but the real working man knows him to be 

 a fraud and a sham, and would willingly rid himself of his 

 presence if he knew how. The British working man holds in 

 supreme contempt this despicable wastrel, and would loyally 

 support any measures that would get rid of him. 



Human Scum 



These human specimens are lost to all sense of shame ; they 

 whine and cringe, or bully and bluster ; they cajole and flatter, 

 twist, turn, and dodge ; they will do anything for a living, from 

 house-to-house begging and petty theft up to highway robbery, 

 but they will not vjork : that is the only thing they will not 

 do ; and yet our comprehensive and lavish system of giving 

 away public money applies equally to this human scum as to 



