| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 1430 |
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total abolition of courts martial, any offence against discipline should be punishable by the ordinary civil law - no member of the Citizen Army being deprived of the rights of a citizen.' `What about the Navy?' cried several voices. `Nobody wants to interfere with the Navy except to make its organization more democratic - the same as that of the Citizen Army - and to protect its members from tyranny by entitling them to be tried in a civil court for any alleged offence. `It has been proved that if the soil of this country were scientifically cultivated, it is capable of producing sufficient to maintain a population of a hundred millions of people. Our present population is only about forty millions, but so long as the land remains in the possession of persons who refuse to allow it to be cultivated we shall continue to be dependent on other countries for our food supply. So long as we are in that position, and so |
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