comes at once a question of business management.
Things profitable must be continued; things un
profitable must be eliminated. Either the Empire
is a profit to England or it is a loss. If it is a loss,
it must be done away with. If it is a profit, it must
be managed so that the average man comes in for
a share of the profit.

If the struggle for commercial supremacy is prof
itable, continue it. If it is not, if it hurts the
worker and makes his lot worse than the lot of a
savage, then fling foreign markets and industrial
empire overboard. For it is a patent fact that if
40,000,000 people, aided by Civilization, possess a
greater individual producing power than the Innuit,
then those 40,000,000 people should enjoy more
creature comforts and heart s delights than the
Innuits enjoy.

If the 400,000 English gentlemen, " of no occupa
tion," according to their own statement in the Cen
sus of 1 88 1, are unprofitable, do away with them.
Set them to work ploughing game preserves and
planting potatoes. If they are profitable, continue
them by all means, but let it be seen to that the
average Englishman shares somewhat in the profits
they produce by working at no occupation.

In short, society must be reorganized, and a capa
ble management put at the head. That the present
management is incapable, there can be no discus-

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