Arizona republican., 1890-05-19
 FREE TRADE FARMING. Agricultural Depression in
 England. Hundreds of UnOccupied
 Farms. a Exile the Only Hope for the Farmers of the Tight
 Old Isle.
From the London Daily Times.

that nODOuy could u0 that With eyes an(
 ears open without now and again stop
 ping to ask himself, "What is going tc
 be the end of all this?"
 "Jnst look around this neighbor
 hood" said particularly well-informet
 resident in the country. "Over wonder
 at such and such village, is an un
 occupied farm of 700 acres; over yondel
 is another of 600 acres; and little
 further off is another of prehaps POO
 acres, which has attached to it 400 ol
 500 acres elsewhere. At another viii
 lage''-mentioning the name of it-"a
 farm of 400 or 500 acres lies vacant
 another of 300 or 400, and another oi 400 acres. All these are on one estate. There is another estate lying away wonder in another direction, which has unoccupied farms of total extent of about 2,l00 acres, and another of 600 acres" and so the speaker proceeded with list which apparently he could have continued almost indefinitely Not, he was careful to understand, that the land was going out of cultivation, but that farmers were giving it up, and the great landowners were themselves cultiyating it under the management of bailiffs. One very general effect of this is to reduce the number of hands em- ployed upon the land, and, as a rule, bailiffs are harder task masters than farmers. Moreover, as the number of employers diminishes also, man has a smaller choice of masters, and is more completely under the thumb of any one who will give him work. If, under such circumstances, wages do not tend down. ward it is partly because they stand at n point at which it is scarcely possible for men to exist at all at lower rate, and partly because there is a continual depletion of the country into the towns. Throughout the county of Lincoln wages, as a rule, stand at 12 shillings week. There are some exceptional cases in which they are less, and there are other cases in which they are trifle more, but l2s week appears to be the usual rate of pay, nominally. The real pay is something less, because whenever the weather does not permit of their working in the fields, and noth- ing can be found to do indoors, 2s a day is stopped, and of course it often hap pens that work is not to be had in any weather.
 TEN AND SENTENCE A WEEK FOR A FAMILY.
 'I assure you, sir," said one dapper little woman, with round, rosy face and pair of laughing gray eyes that seemed to give the contradiction to all her statements of trouble and anxiety --'I assure you, sir, Iny ole man many week in the winter has made only 8 or 10 shillings week, and it's the win ter time as you seems to want it most"
 You may hear any number of such ditties in almost any village of Lincoln shire, which, suppose, is not cOnspic- uously worse than other agricultural counties. All being well, however, the people make E5 or so at harvest, and this may be taken to make up losses at other times, so that l2 shillings may be taken, perhaps, fairly to represent the weekly wages of agricultural laborers. House rent may, perhaps, be reckoned at IS pence a week, and we have los and Cd for the keep of a man and wife and family in food, firing, clothing, school ing and rates.
 "Only little while ago paid a lighting rate of one and tivepence Ina penny" said thin, harrassed-look- ing woman with whom sat and talked over family troubles, land since then l paid one and eleven pence ha'penny for a highway rate, and now Mir. Davis tells me there's another on lem rates signed. Yes, sir, they be half yearly rates, but they've managed to get three on 'em into the twelve months. l dunno low they does it. They works it oop some- how"
 This poor woman looked to be almost broken down with trouble. Owing to an injury to his foot, think she said, her husband had lost the benefit of har- vest time the season before last. They Mad got behind with their rent to the extent of @, but they struggled hard to clear it off by starving and pinching, and after long delay she thought she saw her way to take the landlord los on the coming Saturday, and then she and her husband had been talking it over. The very next day, to her horror, she went into her cottage and found a stranger seated in one of her chairs. The broker was in, and nothing but absolute ruin and the shelter of the dreaded Work House was before them and their two or three young children. They were spoken of in the village as quite models of industry and sobriety and thorough responsibility in every way; and, hap oily, a friend came forward and volun- teered to help them. But, though the greater part of year had elapsed, the mere recollection of that terrible ap- proximation to the Work House agitated the poor woman most distressingly. And well it might, for in April last year her husband did only two days work in three weeks. If that should happen again in the present April! They might be again at the Work House doors and who knows that they might find friend another time.
 LIFE AN AGONY OF DREAD.
 On twelve shillings week small family can just manage to exist when things go smoothly. But it is scarcely possible for them to make the least pro- vision for any sort of trouble, and q slight accident or q briet illness or q short period out of work, and they get behind to an extent which is really ruinous. Thus, with the great mass of these laboring poor, life is one prolonged agony of dread and anxiety. Their whole careers are Overshadowed by the Work House, against which they can make no provision, however careful and industrious they may be. talked with one woman who had four children too young to earn a penny. Her husband earned two shillings day. For that he had to set out at 6 80 in the morning,