Walking On Sunshine

After a period of purgatory

from the truncheonbearing moralist in blue cloth, ” Mote ok “Where to ? is another questio Never mind! huddle yourselves away out of sight somehow! in the foul hold of the emigrant ship, you may have an opportunity of finding that America and Australia do not require your services anymore than Englan You are not the Bort of men for the diggings or the bush. American manufactures are not in want of fresh hand In short, starve you probably must, and we, as British philanthropists, had rather you starved elsewhere than here before our compassionate eye” But we can work,” you cry; ” we are able and willing to turn the brute matter with which the earth still teems, into usable stuff which the world still want Why, if we were turned loose on some uninhabited island with decent soil and minerals, the labour of our hands would soon wrench wealth out of the rocks and the wildernes Human labour, under Gods blessing, is the source of wealth. We are not only producers to glut the market, we are ready to be consumers to absorb one anothers produc The more we make among us the more there will be to divide among u If produce becomes greater than requirement everybody will have more than enough of everything he want”Poor enthusiasts! You are in the a, b, c of political economy. Look at the practical results of over productio England produces more than she wants, and here are you of the producing classes, hungry, ragged, seeking a refuge in the uttermost parts of the earth. According to the theory on which your hopes are founded you ought to be comfortably off her England is not really overcrowde The fields could still produce more than all the inhabitants could eat; the working population can produce more clothing, furniture, kitchen utensils, drawingroom ornaments, cottages, houses, and palaces, than would suffice for millions above the present populatio If plenty of the things men want made wealth, all of you who are willing to workwould be well off hero already. The result of extra production is, that you are starving.” But,” you reply,” we starve here because taxes are so heavy, the poor man cannot live; and we want to go where there are no taxe”" Stop a bit! What.