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much greater extent and at more rapid rate than has 

 hitherto been the case. In the same way the trade of this 

 country and the production of manufactured goods within 

 the United Kingdom not only can be increased very 

 considerably, but will have to be increased both per man 

 employed and per horse power of the machinery called 

 into use to help the human factor, for, if we do not turn 

 out our goods at a quicker rate and at a comparatively 

 lower cost at post-war rates than we were doing up to the 

 time hostilities broke out, we shall not be able to hold 

 our own against our competitors, whether they be our 

 American cousins or our German enemies. The dormant 

 resources of the British Empire at home so far as her 

 manufacturing industries are concerned will have to be 

 developed in every way possible, as will the dormant 

 resources that we are fortunate enough to possess in the 

 Tropics. For this reason I wish everyone who sets himself 

 up to remedy the defects that are hindering this develop- 

 ment all success in their crusade, so long as they do good 

 to the present generation and do not lay the seed of future 

 trouble for those generations who have yet to come. So 

 far as the Tropics are concerned I cannot help sounding a 

 note of warning lest our well-meaning friends in their 

 anxiety to help the present generation and to relieve the 

 enormous taxation with which we are faced in order to 

 pay for the cost of the War, should cause a permanent 

 injury to befall future generations out of all proportion to 

 the benefits that they will confer upon us to-day. So far 

 as I can make out from the propositions laid before us, 

 either the suggestions thrown out cannot be materialized in 

 the near future and so will not be available to help reduce the 

 war debt as we want to see it reduced, or else, if we are to 

 obtain ;^5o, 000,000 per annum from palm products in Africa 

 and the South Seas, or 2,000,000 tons of sugar from British 

 Guiana, we must speed up and exploit the natives who are 



