“LET ’EM STARVE!”
LOOKING TO THE STATE FOR SOLUTION. (Received 11.5 a.m.) London, January 6. Mr. Alfred Russell Wallace, interviewed, said that continually increasing workers’ wages was a most bene(icial tiling for any country. Britain was the richest country in the world, vet the bones of starvation were chinking and rattling. He continued: “We do nothing except say with a shrug of our shoulders : ‘Let ’em starve.’ ” The accumulation of wealth was criminal, but the problem would be solved if we legislated that the unborn should not have rights. Then the State would become the inheritor and make ample provision for the heirs.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 9, 7 January 1913, Page 5
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