Me. Baldwin seems to have constituted, himself a second to the Prince of Wales as an apostle of Empire. While the Prince travels the world around and creates an atmosphere of good feeling and camaraderie by his sound sense and unaffected friendliness, the Prime Minister stays gt home and harps on one stringe} his theme being the neces sity there is for all Britons to pull together if we are to reg the trade we have lost since the great war, Mr. Baldwin seems to be the one man in Britain who realizes what a. glorious heritage the British Empire is. The majority of residents at home are like the man with the muck rake; they see only the things lying at their fect. From the shortsighted viewpoint there is plenty to depress in the outlook, Col-hevies are closing down. Blast furnaces are being damped out, or have never been relit since the slump came in 1920, Mills are working shott time and more than a million men are unemployed and living on the dole. Mr. Baldwin bids the people look and survey their resources. Tt is trae that we are demoralizing " large number of men by paying them to do nothing but, had as that policy is, it is better than the old one of letting them starve or beg. And think how much worse it would he if we could not afford to build 4 rampart: between the family of the idle worker and the werewolf of want, In spite of the deadweight of unemployment we are both reducing taxation and paying off our debts at the same time, We are not sinking deeper into the mire of insolvency but steadily raising ourselves to ther pee position we once held of ing the world's premier credi-! for nation, Mr. Baldwin's great watchword is Empire. We have more than a million unemployed men but we have many millions
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