Algeria
Here are four orators disputing for the platform. First, all the four speak at once； then they speak one after the other. What have they said? Some very fine things, certainly, about the power and the grandeur of France； about the necessity of sowing, if we would reap； about the brilliant future of our gigantic colony； about the advantage of diverting to a distance the surplus of our population, &c. &c. Magnificent pieces of eloquence, and always adorned with this conclusion:--"Vote fifty millions, more or less, for making ports and roads in Algeria； for sending emigrants thither； for building houses and breaking up land. By so doing, you will relieve the French workman, encourage African labour, and give a stimulus to the commerce of Marseilles. It would be profitable every way."
Yes, it is all very true, if you take no account of the fifty millions until the moment when the State begins to spend them； if you only see where they go, and not whence they come； if you look

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