xiv. Hem' to Pax for ilie War 



offered them to add to the wealth of the Empire as well 

 as to that of their own family and themselves. 



I make the foregoing remarks because I see some 

 danger lurking ahead of those who control the finance 

 and wealth-obtaining machinery of the Empire being 

 inclined to place too much reliance on the ability of the 

 few to obtain the wherewithal to liquidate our war debts 

 within a reasonable period, whilst I am of the fixed 

 opinion that this can only be done by the help of the 

 many and by speeding up and increasing the wealth- 

 making capabilities of every member of the Empire, 

 white or coloured, so as to benefit firstly himself and 

 then through himself the Empire at large. Those who 

 claim to be authorities on Labour unrest have been very 

 busy warning us that after the War employment will have 

 to be found for millions of returned soldiers. I am almost 

 surprised that such a statement has to be repeated as 

 often as has been done, and in the threatening manner in 

 which it has been hurled at our heads, when the whole 

 cry of the Empire has been, not for work to be found 

 for its people, but for those who are badly needed 

 to do the Imperial work. That is to say, we need 

 men willing and anxious to go abroad and risk their 

 health and even their lives, as our Empire builders 

 have always had to do, in order to develop the 

 resources of our Empire within its boundaries and 

 to protect and extend our interests and commercial 

 influence in other countries, especially in Russia, Persia, 

 and throughout Latin America, as the Germans have 

 done for many years past. In Brazil alone, one of the 

 richest countries awaiting development, and a centre easily 

 capable of pouring sufficient profits into the Exchequer of 

 any country whose people are bold enough to under- 

 take its development, to pay for the entire cost of this 

 War, there are, or were until recently, 300,000 Germans 



