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', Once, fairly started, we have every reason to believe that the plans here laid down will not only prove strictly self-supporting, but will yield such a margin of profit as will ultimately enable us to set on foot wholesale extensions of the scheme. No doubt there will be local disappointments and individual failures. We are dealing with human nature, and must anticipate that this will be the case. But the proportion of success will far outweigh the fraction of failure, and when the profits and losses of the scheme came to be balanced year by year we have no doubt that socially; physically, morally and financially we shall be able to show-so enormous a gain that the most unreasonable of our critics. will be silenced.
And yet when we come face to face with, the details of the scheme, we find that the scale of our operations must necessarily depend on the amount of capital with which we are able to start. The City Colony, with its Labor Bureau, Labor Yards, Food Depots, Prison and Rescue Homes, and Salvage Brigade, will involve a considerable initial expense* Although, we are able to supply an efficient supervising staff lor a, mere fraction of the ordinary cost,—rents of, land and fcuildings will have to paid. And although, work will be exacted from those who resort to our Yards and Homes, yet the supply of food to the large numbers who are likely to need our help will at the outset probably cost us more than w,e are able to recover from the sale of the goods produced.
The Country Colony, with its Industrial Villages, Suburban Farms, and Waste Settlements, will involve a still heavier outlay of capital. There is every reason to believe that we may look for an ample return. Indeed the financial, prospects of this branch of the scheme are more hopeful than these of the City Colony. But to commence on a large