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about £2 worth of labour. After planting each acre would need 

 only about five days' labour a year, but that means 30,000,000 days 

 of woi-k. The timber grown and cut, there would be the transport, 

 lumbering, and allied industries calling for labour. Dr. Schlich 

 estimates that 500,000 men, or say 2,500,000 people,, would find 

 employment through the afforestation of say six million acres, and 

 the estimate is based upon solid foundations. A business which 

 does not begin to yield income for some 15 years is not for the 

 average private landowner. But the people, who have waited so 

 long for the right to tread their own soil, can wait these 15 years, 

 and other 15 if need be. Given the overlordship of area, the 

 establishment of a permanent Land and Housing Commission, the 

 nationalization of the means of transport, the establishment of 

 well-endowed schools of agriculture and forestry, and a generation 

 of wellrborn children! what possibilities open out before us. Is 

 this idea too large for a race which talks of Empire " ? 



I have attempted to prove that afforestation schemes on a 

 large scale can be put into operation with advantage by the State 

 in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. 



If the reader is of the same opinion, then I would ask him to, . 

 join the Independent Labour Party, in order tliat next election, 

 may see a larger number of the Labour Party in the House of 

 Commons, pledged and prepared to tackle this problem. The 

 landed interest, my friends, have monopolised the Commons of 

 Engl'and too long. 



Much more might be said, but space will not permit, and any^-j 

 one desiring of still further considering the question cannot do 

 better than read Dr. Schlich's book on ' Forestry," Prince 

 Kropotkin's "Fields, Factories, and Workshops," and Mr' 

 Blatchford!s "Britain for the British," in addition to the book 

 last quoted. 



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