What are the Poor Out-of-Work Men to do?

Progress, Volume I, Issue 8, 1 June 1906, Page 203

What are the Poor Out-of-Work Men to do?

What are the poor out - of-^work men to do? The world is wide, let them look round. The old and alarming doctrines of Malthus are exploded nowadays. There is no fear of the overpopulation of this globe ; the crying need of vast continents is for population, for men to wrest from the earth the wealth she holds. The British flag waves over immense tracts of country, which have been wrested by the spilling of British blood, or by the exercise of Bntsh energy, from native races or from other European nations, but they lie for the most part derelict, unclaimed, untilled, their wealth untouched, their possibilities unproved. All they want are capable, practical, educated colonists to turn them into lands flowing with milk and honey, and to create prosperous and contented populations. Here is work worthy of the men to do.

There is no virtue in the one-day sprint that requires the six-day snooze.