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Excerpt from The New Era in South Africa: With an Examination of the Chinese Labour Question At the conclusion of the war the one idea prevalent in South Africa was that peace would immediately inaugurate an era of unprecedented prosperity. Every where there was an almost feverish anticipation Of the coming boom. The Government was urged to perfect its administrative machinery, and any attempt to stem the tide of popular impatience at once created an outcry. The possibility of labour difficulties seems to have been lost sight of, and the dislocating efiects of the war on the Kadir population. Hence, when, owing to the labour shortage, instead of a boom a slump set in, with a long period of depression, the reaction was inevitable. The Government, which had been urged to administrative efforts of all kinds, was now blamed for undue optimism and accused of financial reckless ness. From extravagant hopes South Africa passed to equally extravagant gloom. Optimism and pessimism alike had been hasty and irrational, but, in view of the financial depression, few people were disposed to reason calmly as to the origin of the difficulty. Money, as I have Shown, was required largely for the development of public works, but the utility of public works and their financial earnings in turn depend on the general prosperity of the country, and this latter is at a standstill owing to the labour scarcity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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