CHAPTER XXIV

CONCLUSION

Progress in 40 years 330 Some items in material progress, 1867-1903 332 What Dudley Baxter wrote in 1867 333 The poor within our borders to-day are as large in number as the entire population in 1867 338 The employer the effective schoolmaster 340 A poor government is a weak government 341 Sir Robert Giffen on taxation 341 We must have regard to both palliatives and remedies 342 Public ownership of capital must replace private ownership 343 The substitution of the public shareholder for the private shareholder not difficult 344 The uplifting of work through the reduction of toil 345 The statesman must take up the tools of the scientist 346 The appeal to the few 348 The appeal to the people 348

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RICHES AND POVERTY