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of something else, a mere matter of — Cause and Effect. It is 

 generally regarded as a foul but inevitable growth of modern 

 life, requiring special treatment, and all sorts of novel and costly 

 experiments are constantly being tried in the hope that the evil 

 may be removed. It is just here that well-meaning philanthro- 

 pists do incalculable harm by failing to perceive that their 

 generous efforts to mitigate an ever-present and ever-growing 

 evil only serve to maintain a grievous wrong done to the people 

 in 1846, a wrong wliich all the Governments since that day have 

 done nothiug but perpetuate. 



No Government of the past has cared — or dared — to tackle 

 the question in a frank, whole-hearted manner that would open 

 the eyes of the public to the real source of unemployment and 

 acute distress, and no Government of to-day, or to-morrow, will 

 be found a whit readier to tackle it, because of Vested Interests. 

 The landed interest is well represented in both Lords and 

 Commons, and where shall be found an Administration, whether 

 Eadical or Conservative, courageous enough to beard the lion in 

 both Houses of Parliament ? Every Government — Tory or 

 Eadical — is ready enough to devote large sums of public money 

 in mitigation of a public nuisance, and is willing enough to 

 encourage philanthropists to the same futile line of action, 

 because by these means they have been enabled to stave off the 

 evil day which they knew must dawn sooner or later. A general 

 awakening is, however, at hand, and the Government will have 

 to render an account of its stewardship. 



Let us call to our aid some of that sapience which is said to 

 be among the characteristics of the British race, and put an end 

 to this crass ignorance of a simple question, which is both 

 grotesque and lamentable ; and above all, let us SM-eep away 

 that miasmatic atmosphere of chicanery and deceit which many 

 politicians have created around it to obscure their own designs. 



How TO PvEdeem the Weong 



No help of a real, comprehensive and abiding nature can 

 possibly come to this unemployed question save through — 

 Agriculture, and the sooner this simple fact is generally recog- 

 nised, the sooner will come the people's redemption from a great 

 ^^Tong. 



It is said by those who bolster up the present system, that 

 other countries have their labour difficulties, and they cite our 

 two great industrial competitors — Germany and the United 

 States- -in proof of their contention. 



That both of these countries suffer at times from congestion 

 f»f industrial labour, and that every country in the world which 



