2 2 How to Pay j or the War 



and elsewhere ; (5) raising food crops, &c., in semi-arid 

 zones by extending tiie principle of "dry-farming"; (6) 

 maintaining our faith in Russia as a nation and cultivating 

 her markets in spite of the present state of affairs. 



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CHAPTER II. 



Are the Working Classes in England being 

 urged to Exploit the Tropics ? 



Tropical Life, December, 1917. 



Planters, merchants, and even the officials attached to 

 the various agricultural departments in our tropical and 

 Crown-Colonial possessions and protectorates should take 

 note of the l^ritish Workers' League, which is being 

 boomed by the British Citizen and Empire Worker, of which 

 Mr. Victor Fisher is editor. At the same time he is the 

 hon. treasurer and secretary and backbone-in-chief of the 

 British Workers' League, and is also a pillar of strength 

 in supporting Mr. Wilson-Fox's scheme. This is shown 

 by the remarks incorporated by the hon. secretary of the 

 E.R.D.C, in the paper he read before the Society of Arts 

 last December, when he told those present that a well- 

 known German writer has recently laid it down that " the 

 general principle is, the more an industry lends itself to 

 the formation of syndicates, the more suitable it is for 

 State participation. ... He (Professor Naumann) 

 realizes, and he is quite right, that no one likes taxation, 

 and he therefore very properly casts about for some alter- 

 native plan," and Mr. Wilson-Fox unfolds his plan, which 

 has been described according to the spectacles through 

 which the critic views them as being purely philanthropic, 

 or a carefully-drawn-up plan for State participation, 

 hardening up to such terms as pure monopolistic exploita- 

 tion on German methods. 



Previous to this (p. 79 of the Society of Arts Journal, 

 December 15, 1917), he told his audience : " This statement 

 of the proper limits of State action is not my own. . . . 



