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 as soon as he has gained a small competency. If the French colonist would invent a word for home, and apply it with all his heart to this land he has conquered and has adopted; if he would resolve to live and die as an Algerian and in Algeria, and to do his work and conduct his affairs in this intent, the government would not find every year that awful deficit in Algerian finances.

WELCOME

AT ST. JOHN'S FARM

France has given freely of her blood and of her gold to win this province for her children. She has established her dominion from the borders of Tripoli to the borders of Morocco and from the Mediterranean to the Sahara. She has created means of communication in the desert, and through the wild mountainous regions; she has prepared the fields for the laborers, but the laborers come only in small numbers or come with the hope of a speedy return to France as their chief preoccupation. The future prosperity of Algeria is problematical. As an investment French Algeria is a gigantic failure. As a proof of the wonderful administrative genius of the French, Algeria is a success. As a training ground for the armies of the future, Algeria is invalu