ITS LESSONS AND ITS WARNINGS 11 



they had fought. As one of them said, "We 

 should be digging our own trenches." Settl- 

 ing down " as you were " and carrying on 

 "business as usual" will be impossible. A fresh 

 field will be opened up for land nationalizes 

 and other agitators. Vain, unpatriotic, dis- 

 honourable quibblers, who if not actually or 

 avowedly pro-German are of great service to 

 Germany, will come to the front with their 

 mischievous counsels. Trade will be dislocated, 

 the present rate of high wages will be reduced, 

 and the self-seeking section of the trade unions, 

 and those who have shirked their duty during 

 the war, tempted by opportunity, will be in 

 evidence. Many interests will be attacked 

 severely, and there will be great trouble in 

 many unforeseen ways. 



The only way to counteract the disruptive 

 action of these new forces is by securing the 

 steadying effect of a largely-increased rural 

 population. Such increased rural population 

 would be an effective and healthy balance wheel 

 to regulate the action of the social machine. The 

 present is an opportune time for providing it. 



There is profitable employment for some 

 millions of persons in cultivating the uncultivated 



