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36 METHODS OF SOCZAL REFORM.
and 80me people regard the achievement8 of the department
88 WUT~~~OUS. They forget, however, that it has been
wmpliehed by the lavish and almost unlimited expenditure
of the national money, and that many wonders might be done
in the mme wsy. If the English people like to spend their
public revenue upon cheap telegrams, of course they can do
so, though there may be two opinions about the wisdom of the
expenditure. But in any cas0 it is not wise for us to forget
the extreme discrepancies between what waa promised And
what has been achioved by tho telegraph department'.