In these countries over 31.000.000 men and women are engaged in manufacturing and mining pursuits. The average annual income of these millions is less than $4 a week. or $200 a year. Unless they emigrate to the United States they have no hope to rise from the condition to which they were born. The official returns of these countries bring out the astonishing fact that over 8.000.000 persons. a number exceeding onefourth of the industrial population. are returned as paupets. and that annually the taxpayers. already burdened with the immense cost of imperial armies. have to pay the enormous sum of $150.000.000 to prevent these people from dying of starvation. Of this amount freetrade Great Britain alone contributes over onethird. or $50.200.000.
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