Discussing the original issue in igig, Lord Leverhulme 

 was good enough to say : — 



" I congratulate Mr. Hamel Smitli on his great and suc- 

 cessful labour in his book * How to Pay for the War.' 



" The citizens of the United Kingdom cannot have their 

 attention too strongly directed to the importance and value of 

 the tropical portions of the British Empire. Life in tem- 

 perate regions is dependent upon the tropics for a very large 

 proportion of its necessaries. Nature has been generous to the 

 tropical portion of the British Empire in giving it a rich 

 fertile soil, capable of production ten-fold to that of the most 

 fertile soil in the United Kingdom. There the rain falls and 

 the sun shines in a temperature which is maintained as in a 

 hot-house, but without the necessity of one single shovel-full 

 of coal or any expenditure upon glass. A few years ago we 

 heard a great deal of what was called ' Intensive Production ' 

 by means of cultivation under glass, and of the enormous 

 increase in yield from land under such a system, but in the 

 tropics we can have our intensive production without the 

 cost of glass roofs or greenhouses or bell glasses, without the 

 cost of hot-water pipes or boilers, and we can have the cer- 

 tainty that any development in the tropical portions of the 

 British Empire will not only give us increased food supplies 

 at home but will help to raise and civilize the natives of those 

 outlying portions of the Empire and, in a few generations, 

 lift them from their present condition, which are in many 

 parts similar to those periods which we call the Stone Age 

 and which it has taken Europe thousands of years to develop 

 herself out of and to reach our stage of civilization. 



•• The whole human family the world over, of all races and 



