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The correction of the exchange can be brought about ulti-

mately only by a far greater productivity here. There is no other way. If we do not work we shall be poor, instead of rich as we were before the war. If we work badly enough we shall one day starve or go bankrupt. The matter is entirely in our own hands. One cannot help feeling that if the miners who are on strike understood the real meaning of what they are doing, they would suffer some remorse. We think of the words in which Meg Merrilies uttered her malediction on Godfrey Bertram : " Ride your ways, ride your ways, Laird of Man- gowan—ride your ways, Godfrey Bertram ! This day have ye quenched seven smoking hearths—see if the fire in your sin parlour burn the blither for that I"

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