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to possibly under 3,000 Englishmen. Until we have half 

 a million Englishmen in Brazil, the man who stands up 

 in London and says that he needs work should almost be 

 branded as a traitor to his country, for there is, on all 

 sides, far more work to be found if he is willing to under- 

 take it than he is capable of doing, especially later on. 

 Probably such men are neither capable nor willing to 

 undertake the work of developing the resources of this 

 Empire, as they do not want, when it comes to the pinch, to 

 forgo the comforts of living over here and enjoying the 

 fruits of the wealth obtained through the efforts of those 

 who have gone abroad, and as long as we continue to 

 tolerate such a class of beings in our midst we shall never 

 prosper and go ahead as the Central Powers, and especially 

 Prussia, has been doing during the last forty years. If, 

 therefore, the leaders of the Trade Unions continue to 

 complain that this country is not looking after and doing 

 the best for the good of their members, I hope that the 

 Government will tell them that the fault lies as much with 

 the working men as with the workers of all classes in the 

 community, for not coming forward and expressing their 

 willingness to be conscripted in order to develop our 

 national wealth abroad as the men of Germany have 

 proved themselves to be willing to do, and as they have 

 done with such tremendous benefit to Germany and harm 

 to ourselves during the last generation or two. 



What, as I have already said, is at present lacking, is 

 the continuity of training organizations to take the children 

 of these men from the very beginning of their educational 

 career and to fit them out both in mind and body to be 

 able" to do their bit" in helping to develop the resources 

 of the Empire abroad, and to put money in the National 

 Exchequer with which to fight the Empire's battles and 

 to defend its people against the brutalities of aggressive 

 enemies, as will have to be done if we mean to hold our 



