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people stand at the cross roads to-day [laisser /aire, retro- 

 gradation, development, progress), waiting for the mandate 

 of our Empire-builders as to the conduct and movements 

 in the future, it is absolutely necessary that no time should 

 be lost in telling us to go " full-speed ahead " for many 

 reasons, but especially for two: (i) To feed our people, 

 and keep our factories well supplied with raw material so 

 as to extend our trade. (2) As with a military war, to 

 help us oust the competition of the enemy from all points of 

 vantage, and to secure both the import and export trade of 

 the chief centres of the world for ourselves and our Allies. 

 For this reason, whilst the cry must always be the British 

 Empire for the Ikitish, we must never again allow South 

 America to be dominated by Germany. There we must 

 nail to the masthead a flag with these words : " Latin 

 America for the Latin Americans and the Allied countries 

 in North America and Europe." In no part of the world 

 will civilization and genuine culture and progress have to 

 fight the mediaeval Hun and his modern evil ways as in 

 Latin America. Therefore, the question of the develop- 

 ment of the resources of the Empire must always include 

 the Latin-American markets as well. Above all, the 

 begetting of wealth must always go hand-in-hand with the 

 begetting of welfare. In a word, wealth -|- welfare - last- 

 ing power; wealth — welfare ^ Prussianism. 



Captain Jebb, we believe, favours the views we expressed 

 last month in our leading article. Like ourselves, he 

 claims that the resources of the Tropics should be 

 developed whenever possible by the indigenous races and 

 by methods appropriate to the development of an indigenous 

 civilization, and not by the exotic methods of our own 

 industrial system which, in our own case, has already 

 illustrated the old adage that wealth is not always equiva- 

 lent to welfare. "We must hope," Captain Jebb will tell 

 you, "to liquidate the War debt, or at least to meet the 

 interest bill, by developing the resources of the Empire, 

 just as our forefathers contrived to meet the bill for 

 the Napoleonic wars by the industrial revolution that took 

 place after the military campaign', but to be successful we 



• This is the reason, with a virile and progressive nation determined as 

 a people (and not as a ruling class, dominating only serfs and "gun- 

 meat ") to go ahead, why great wars so often bring great progress in their 

 train. Those who remain are then forced to bury their prejmlices and 

 forgo their privileges, thereby allowing the land, &c. , to be opened up, 

 and all classes and creeds to come in and help make their country and 

 themselves wealthier than before. — Ed. 'J'.L. 



