sion. It has drained the United Kingdom of its
life-blood. It has enfeebled the stay-at-home folk
till they are unable longer to struggle in the van of
the competing nations. It has built up a West
End and an East End as large as the Kingdom is
large, in which one end is riotous and rotten, the
other end sickly and underfed.

A vast empire is foundering on the hands of this
incapable management. And by empire is meant
the political machinery which holds together the
English-speaking people of the world outside of the
United States. Nor is this charged in a pessimistic
spirit. Blood empire is greater than political empire,
and the English of the New World and the Antip
odes are strong and vigorous as ever. But the
political empire under which they are nominally
assembled is perishing. The political machine
known as the British Empire is running down. In
the hands of its management it is losing momentum
every day.

It is inevitable that this management, which has
grossly and criminally mismanaged, shall be swept
away. Not only has it been wasteful and ineffi
cient, but it has misappropriated the funds. Every
worn-out, pasty-faced pauper, every blind man, very
prison babe, every man, woman, and child whose
belly is gnawing with hunger pangs, is hungry be
cause the funds have been misappropriated by the
management.

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