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The NORTHERN BULL & LION
RIPAMAMM, NORTHERN REPUBLIC
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The UNEMPLOYED, the DISPOSSESSED, the REFUGEE, all form part of the greatest and most difficult question to face the United Republics in the Thaumantic, many say, the most important.
For the working man and woman there remains often no greater tragedy than unemployment, at all times filling one’s mind with unscrupulous anxiety. Those who have had experience of distress can furnish us with many bitter recollections. The fear of unemployment, dispossession, seeking refuge, is cause of dis-peace and disquietude. Should the United Republics eradicate the dread of such terrible instances that which affects the minds of the working man and woman, a surety and a confidence in willingness and ability to create a new spirit of harmony and happiness.
Fear, it is the greatest impediment to the United Republic’s prosperity. There exist masses of people throughout the Union today who believe that the more they produce the less will be wanted, and conversely that the less they do the more employment will be afforded. That is erroneous; so long as the fear exists we may never succeed in completely eradicating unemployment, dispossession, the refugee, and nothing would tend so much to increase the output of the United Republics, which is so urgently needed, as the creation of an assurance in the minds of the working people of the Union, that they would be sustained free and not abandoned should the day of any one of those afflictions comes.
Today there are are those that believe, and write letters, on the possibilities of devising a system in which there would be no unemployment. This publication, to be confessed, does not hold that view and cannot share in the optimism. It should not be forgotten that a bad season, a blight in the crop of one of our great raw material, may cause dislocation in the trade of any country which no provision can make beforehand can cope with. Nearer to home, within the United Republics, even a strike in one part of the Union may throw out employment and dispossess the people who depend upon the raw material produced by those who are on strike, and there are many recent examples of that fact. Upon the whole, the matter must be looked at in a prudent and tactful light, the only thing that can be done is to anticipate unemployment, dispossession, and the refugee concern, and make provision against them. What provision can we make? Insurance is one of the best known expedients, and it is upon the road of insurance that the United Republics has already progressed, Sir Artie Pelham-Shelbus, Prime Minister of the Northern Republic.
In RIPAMAMM, on Wednesday, the Prime Minister of the Northern Republic laid out his scheme to the Northern Parlement on the proposals, to remedy such afflictions, he intends to submit to the United Republics Ministry in New Union City.
Has it not been found quite obvious to all, certainly, that insurance against that which persists to undermine must be much more widely and ambitiously extended than it has been in the past? It must be that we insure every citizen, in all the United Republics, against the ungracious scourge of UNEMPLOYMENT, DISPOSSESSION, and need of REFUGE.
Must we sincerely consider again the merits of a contributory opposite a non-contributory scheme? Should it be preferable to bring in all the industries of the Union, or the great majority? Or should it be prudent to pool the resources of all and make one consolidated scheme? Not again, I demand of you. Look to ourselves as Representatives, as Citizens, are we not urged together by a shared humanity to face the problem afresh, to not be overwhelmed by persistent circular inquiry; separate the modern subject from the tired old questions. We have acquired experience, valuable experience gained in the working of insurance schemes under numerous Acts before, between 1910 and 1919. The experience does not permit us to be reasonably confident in pursuing a system founded on that evidence, on those questions, because, as we all know, the period was entirely abnormal. Yet, the emergency measures undertaken, to countenance menacing unemployment and the persisting tragedy of refugees in New Angellex, did however demonstrate the limitations of citizen-led initiatives. None could contend such schemes proved a source of demoralisation of our people, an accusation entirely justified and genuinely acknowledged with unanimous sympathy within the Union.
In short, the emergency measures at the very least provided us a guide, a measure of warning to Parlement, to the Thaumantic. Permitting us this last conclusion, a sensible confidence, for a non-contributory scheme, a universalist scheme, the De-Pressioning Ordnance.
A financial imposition on the federated republics, yes, and centrally from the United Republics Ministry. Not a burden nor indulgence, but a proper measure of public necessity, bold and audacious, for a greater immunity from the risks personal to all, and some value to the overall economic stability of the Union. Accordingly, out of past efforts and misadventures, the machinery is sufficiently in place, capable and timely, to administer with a jolly efficiency through the Employable Exchangeables throughout the United Republics, providing that the means of provision remains untested and without undue complication; bureaucratic estimations should prove equally efficient, too, on the ease of access to that public benefit.
To our Friends on the opposite side of the House, and indeed New Union City, I hope, do endeavour to conspire with me in consigning such unnecessary deprivations to our collective history. There remains much to consider, much to do, and we cannot suffer hesitation to face it.