"LET 'EM STARVE."
BRITAIN'S INDIFFERENCE.
TO PROBLEM OF POVERTY.
By Telegraph.—Press Asspciation.—popsTlif&t London, Monday.
Sir Alfred Rusael Wallace, the famous naturalist, in the course of an interview to-day, said that continual increases in workmen's wages was a moat oeneficial thing .to any country. "Britain is the richest country in the world," he Baid, "yet the bones of stavation are clanking and rattling. We do nothing except say with a shrug of our shoulders, 'Let 'em starve!'
"The accumulation of wealth! a criminal problem, would be solved if the State legislated that the unborn should have no rights, then the State would become the inheritor and could make ample provision for its heirs."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 531, 8 January 1913, Page 5
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