It will thus become a large expansion of the present workhouse system.

The eternal dilemma of the poor law will be present there.

On the one hand, if, as seems likely, the degradation and disgrace attaching to the workhouse is extended to the industrial colony, it will fail to attract the more honest and deserving among the "very poor," and to this extent will fail to relieve the struggling workers of their competition.

On the other hand, if the condition of the "industrial colonist" is recognized as preferable to that of the struggling free competitor, it must in some measure act as a premium upon industrial failure, checking the output of energy and the growth of self-reliance in the lower ranks of the working classes.

No scheme for the relief of poverty is wholly free from this difficulty; but there is danger that the State colony of Mr.Booth would, if it were successful as a mode of "drainage," be open to it in no ordinary degree.
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