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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 75

Great Failure Party;

Great Failure Party;

£5,654,000 increase in our national debt, and contingent liability of £5,234,000.

£2,636,000 surpluses gone, and nothing to show for them.

£342,000 per annum of increased taxation. An increase in taxation last year of 4s. per head of the entire population, with a certainty of a further increase this year.

453 more Civil servants to provide for.

2,800 more State paupers to keep.

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17,400 unemployed to look after.

About 4,000 less people placed on the land.

A great decrease in the number of acres taken up.

A largely-reduced revenue from land.

Practically no increase whatever in the development of raining industries.

A decrease in our import and export trade of £2 4s. 8d. per head of the entire population.

A falling-off in the rate of increase of manufacturing establishments of 20 per annum.

A falling-off in the rate of increase in the number of hands employed of 350 per annum.

A decrease in the development of the output of our local industries of no less than £1,286,935 per annum, and all this with an increased population of 95,000, to work upon.

Is there any progress here?

Yes, there is—headlong progress to destruction. No Government has had such power and opportunity. No Government has promised so much. No Government has failed so utterly and completely as the Seddon Government, and their worst failure has been as regards the interests of the Working Man.