loo How to Pay for I lie IVar 



all up once a year, as the ranchers do their cattle, take 

 stock of all, asking each what he is doing, ascertain what 

 he can do, and then see that it is done. This may sound 

 autocratic, but it will be at least fair — far fairer than the 

 world is to-day, when a minority of us work, and work 

 hard, to pay the major portion of the taxes and help 

 slackers to have an easy lime. 



" Since the Government of to-day has found the money 

 necessary to ensure the health of the workers in this 

 country, and to keep the aged from having to depend on 

 charity, so also is it their duty — that is to say, the duty 

 of ourselves — to spend an amount that is far less than 

 I per cent, of the total of this year's Budget to ensure this 

 country receiving those regular and increasing supplies 

 of food-stuffs and raw materials without which we cannot 

 continue to be one of the leading — if not the leading — 

 countries of the world. If on a Budget of ^'200,000,000 we 

 cannot squeeze out a one-thousandth part to secure our 

 enjoying the lead in the world's commerce, then I would 

 maintain that we should be signally failing in our duty, 

 both to the present generation and those who are to come 

 hereafter." 



CHAPTER XVI. 



British Agricultural Colleges in the Tropics. 

 The Question ol their Establishment as 

 discussed in 1914. 



Tvopical Life, July, 19 14. 



Those who, like ourselves, have been strenuously 

 endeavouring to induce the Government to establish at 

 least two Agricultural Colleges in the tropical zone, say 

 in Ceylon and Trinidad, will do well to study the published 

 account of the important Tropical Congress that took place 

 at the Imperial Institute under the presidency of Professor 

 Wyndham Dunstan, C.M.G., M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., 

 Director of the Institute, during the last seven days of 

 June. We say tliis as we believe, thanks to the speeches 

 made by and to the leading men who took a personal 



