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mostly to the United Staten
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the English who go to such
places an Uganda are not workmen but middle class adventurers
...
They go to make the black men work, to sweat the labour
of black men$ where they will not be harrassed by Trades
Union. "
(i)
A more persuasive argument for African expansion was the
prospect of economic gain. Africa could be regarded an a source
of raw materials and an an area for investment, - especially
in South African gold and diamond minas, but it wan mainly
seen an a market for British goods. From the 1870'n onwards
it was felt that British trade was increasingly coming under
pressure fron German and American competition, intensified by
tariffs against British goods. Locky put a typical view, - "It
is beginning to be clearly seen that with a vast, redundant
over crowing population, with our enormous manufactures and
our utterly insufficiont supply of home. c1row. vt sod, it in a
matter of life and death to the nation and especially to its
working classes, that there should be secure and extending fields
open to our goods, end in the present condition of the world we
must mainly look for these fields within our own Empire. "
Joseph Chamberlain was an rdont advocate of now markets an a
cure for uner ploytaent; during the FIauro of Commons debate on
U anda in 1893 be declared in reply to a Radical critic "Does
(1) Ioattivint ROvieWs April 1893.
(2) Ur. ;. ti. Locky, Op its pp. 12-13.
(2)