The roundabout nature of much of this competition does not impair one whit the inevitability of this result.
This objection is applicable not only to the method of the Salvation Army, but to many other industrial experiments conducted on a philanthropic basis.

Directly or indirectly bounty-fed labour is brought into competition with self-supporting labour to the detriment of the latter.

It is sometimes sought to evade the difficulty by confining the produce which the assisted labour puts upon the open market to classes of articles which are not for the most part produced in this country, but which are largely imported from abroad.

It is urged that although shoes and furniture and matches ought not to be produced by assisted labour for the outside market, it is permissible for an agricultural colony to replace by home products the large imports in the shape of cheese, fruit, bacon, poultry, etc., which we now receive from abroad.
Those who maintain this position commonly fail to take into consideration the exports which go out from this country to pay for these imports.

If this export trade is diminished the trades engaged in manufacturing the exported goods will suffer, and labour employed in these trades may be thrown out of employment.