i8 How to Pay for the War 



without in the near future, after so many years of fasting),, 

 what will happen in fifty or a hundred years' time when the 

 white peoples in spite of this horrible War will have 

 become much more numerous than they are to-day, and 

 the coloured races run a very good chance of becoming 

 much fewer in number. Since it has been proved that the 

 native races alone can raise the crops and collect the 

 materials in the Tropics that are needed by the white 

 consuming centres, and as we know that the native 

 populations, as things are at present, are growing less, it 

 can only happen if this reduction in numbers is not checked 

 and increased populations made the rule, that the white 

 races must also grow less, and considerably less, as there 

 will be a lack in the wherewithal to supply their needs 

 and to generate the volume of overseas trade necessary to 

 give them an income. 



I think that a far safer means of developing the 

 resources of our tropical dependencies as they should be 

 and could be developed lies in the establishment of agri- 

 cultural colleges and institutes of research in the Tropics, 

 so that we could train the boys fresh from the secondary 

 schools or colleges over here, or the young men as they 

 come home from the Front, and make them capable of 

 carrying out this valuable work of tropical development on 

 all sides. Such work must be done not only in our own 

 dependencies, but throughout Latin America also, as 

 there Germany has been coining money in the past that 

 would have come to us had we had as many young English- 

 men throughout that Continent as there have been Germans 

 at the command of our chief enemy. These scientifically 

 trained men would encourage individual producers to 

 further efforts by making them thoroughly an fait of the 

 work that would be required of them ; and also by enabling 

 them to establish estates themselves or to manage those 

 belonging to other people, the trained men would help to 



