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gives his all to the community. For instance, if all rich men were to 

 run the same rig as did Mr. Ernest Benzon and the Marquis of 

 Ailesbury, would not the object of the socialist be attained forthwith ? 

 Others possessed of the same idiotic recklessness are this very day 

 doing the same thing . 



The foregoing remarks refer only to those of our moneyed classes who 

 live and spend their money in their own countrj'. Those who do not 

 spend the money at home, w-hence they obtained it, are an injury to the 

 community in whatever degree may be the proportion of their income 

 -which they spend abroad. Those -who hoard up their money and do 

 not spend it anywhere are not alone good for nothing, but they are bad 

 for everything and everybody. 



Yes, absentees have been for all time a curse to our kingdom, and 

 more particularly to my ow^n dear old portion of it. The evil is, alas, 

 increasing and fast aggrandising the foreigners, who give us nothing in 

 return. 



I make these remarks to show that the very best way for keeping our 

 rich men at home to spend their money in the country, is to uphold by 

 every means in our power the sports of our nation, so that the rich man 

 may, to the fullest desire of his heart, indulge in them. 



We must all admit that we are now in a highly progressive age. 

 Changes are taking place with such rapidity that we who are the 

 spectators— even though we at times see premonitory symptoms of 

 what is coming — stand aghast in \vonder and bewilderment. But 

 what would our forefathers say if they were to rise from the dead and 

 see the changes which have been brought about within the last two or 

 three decades ? With these changes fast revolving before us, may we 

 not ask ourselves what is likely to happen within the next few years ? 



Judging by the past, it is not unreasonable to suppose that in a com- 

 paratively short time we may see the air as a highw^ay additional to 

 the land and sea. That electricity, lessening the use of coal, may be our 

 principal motive as well as lighting power. That our present postal 

 system may become obsolete owing to our having ready means for 

 almost instantaneous universal communication, Avhich may be carried 

 on and paid for in a language and coinage common to the world. 

 That instead of six days being occupied in transit between Enghnd 

 and America, who knows but half the time may be sufficient for 

 the purpose, and that, too, over a sea calmed by human invention ? 

 Labour may have become master over capital to an extent that the 

 employed and the employer shall bear equally the profit and the loss of 

 commercial undertakings— ay, to the extent that the class now known 

 as "servants" shall have ceased to exist. The respect which has from 

 time immemorial be?n accorded to women by reason of the refinement 

 w^hich their nature so beautifully portrays may have been lost to them 

 through their having undertaken duties the prerogative of man, and 

 thereby changed for rude the gentle attributes which had hitherto been 

 the birthright of women. 



