Find lice 6i 



lie could realize what the Tropics means to this country) 

 but /'250,ooo a year (that is about one-eighth of i per cent, 

 only on the total amount demanded) for two or three 

 years, then the foundations and assured success of the 

 agricultural colleges and the work of the Schools of 

 Tropical Medicine would be well and truly laid, and the 

 future prosperity, happiness, and general welfare of the 

 public " insured " far more certainly than the National 

 Health Insurance, costing millions a year, with its panel 

 doctors and sanatoriums, will ever bring about. We are 

 too late, we fear, for this year, but we do hope, most 

 sincerely, that our future prodigals will see to it (if only 

 for selfish reasons, i.e., if they want to continue to feast on 

 fatted calves and to demand that they become bigger year 

 by year) that the tropical planter is at least given the 

 same medical and educational facilities that are offered and 

 forced on the lower classes on this side, especially as the 

 cost for the first will be but a fraction of that for the 

 latter, and the benefits that will accrue from the latter 

 cannot be compared in any way with the benefits offered 

 by the Tropics. 



chaptp:r XI. 



Financing our Imperial Pioneers. 



If I WERE Chancellor of the Exchequer. 



Tropical Life, September, 1914. 



In the first article in the August issue on " Why and 

 How the War will Benefit the Trade of the Empire" we 

 urged our readers to remember that the question of finance 

 must not be overlooked. This, of course, is what we have 

 contended and striven to drive home to those in authority 

 over us in every way we can, viz., that in future the leader- 

 ship of the world lies with the nation who owns the heaviest 

 purse,' and so it behoves us to develop our possessions 

 and spheres of influence in ever.y way possible. We have 

 had over twenty-five years' experience in merchants' and 



' As those seeking to float war loans, either at home or abroad, very 

 soon discover. 



