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Excerpt from The Policy of Self Help: Suggestions Towards the Consolidation of the Empire and the Defence of Its Industries and Commerce; Two Letters
The efforts recently made to direct public attention to the subject of the following letters have provoked a good deal of criticism, sometimes angry, and often contemptuous. This movement of opinion may, of course, be a mistaken one; or, if well founded, may be lulled by some temporary return of prosperity; but it cannot be scolded into silence, or repressed by scorn. Nor, on the other hand, can its Object be advanced by the impatient zeal which would drag it into the arena of party politics, for it is not a party question. No Government ought to attempt to deal with it, ecept upon the distinct demand of the great body of the people. To invite the attention of working men, and to put our facts and arguments temperately before them, on all suitable occasions, is therefore the present duty of those who believe a change of policy to be required. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
