How to Pay for the War. 



SECTION I. 

 IMPERIAL EXPANSION. 



CHAPTER I. 



The Native Factor in the Economic 

 Development of the Empire. 



" The Wealth of the Country depends less on its natural resources than 

 on the vigour, the energy, and the training of its people."— The Prime 

 Minister (Mr. Lloyd George) at the Royal Albert Hall, October 22, 1917. 



If the reader will turn to the note at the foot of page 783 

 in the October issue of the Nineteenth Century and After, 

 he will there see a statement by the present American 

 Ambassador to the effect that " The Rule of Conduct 

 which serves as the fundamental basis of democracy in the 

 United States of America is that every human being should 

 have an opportunity for its utmost development." A 

 wiser saying has never been uttered and this statement of 

 Mr. Hines Page, followed so soon after by that of our 

 present Prime ]\Iinister which stands at the head of this 

 page, should sink into the mind and brain of every Britisher, 

 worthy of the name, for on it depends the success of the 

 future as regards the fortunes of the British Empire when 

 we one and all, man, woman and child, will be or ought to 

 be working to the uttermost of our powers to help develop 

 the resources of the Empire in every way possible and thus 

 win the Peace as we mean to win the War. Unless each 

 and all of us are given the opportunity to develop our own 



