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be both just and generous towards those who are wilUng 

 to sacrifice the comfort of home and risk the dangers to 

 health abroad for the benefit of the Empire. As already 

 stated time and again, we must train the tropical and 

 agricultural industrial army to enable them to extend the 

 wealth of the Empire in the same way as we are training, 

 and always have trained, the Navy and Army to defend it. 

 Up to the present this country, as a whole, has not only 

 mt done so, but refused to take any interest as a nation in 

 such acts on the part of some of its well-wishers who have 

 tried to take the first steps towards seeing that our 

 industrial army is properly and adequately trained. With 

 the reorganization of the nation's resources that is now 

 being carried out, we trust that an adjustment will be made 

 in favour of the Tropics. 



CHAPTER V. 



By Ascertaining the Best Way to Develop 

 the Resources of the Empire, 



Tropical Life, January, 1918. 



Elsewhere in this article, as well as in others which I 

 have written, I have criticized the views, as I gather them 

 to be, outlined by Mr. Wilson-Fox and his colleagues for 

 developing the latent resources of our Empire in order to 

 secure the much larger profits which they can undoubtedly 

 yield to help pay for the cost of this War. " The post-war 

 revenue which the Government will have to raise by one 

 means or another," pointed out Mr. Wilson-Fox on 

 January g to the Fellows of the Royal Colonial Institute, 

 "in order to discharge its ever-growing obligations cannot 

 now be expected to be less than /6oo,ooo,ooo per annum, 

 and may even exceed ;^ 700,000,000." The amount is 

 stupendous, and it is high time to consider how we can 

 best meet such a course. On this we are agreed, we being 

 Mr. Wilson-Fox and his colleagues, Mr. Victor Fisher (see 

 his letter on p. 36 re our criticisms in the December issue, 

 p. 182), and his British Workers' League, and Tropical 



