Telegram-herald., 1890-09-06
AGRICULTURE IN ENGLAND.

How IL Has Become Depressed and Ruined
By Her Free Trade Policy-BTitIsh TestI-
mony OF Both Protectionists and Free
Traders A Home Market Always the
Best.
England had a protective policy until
her manufactures were established and
her foreign trade a fixed fact. Now she
advocates free trade. She has not acres
enough TO support her people, and she
must make goods TO sell to other people
to support her population. She must
trade with others, decrease in popula-
tion, or starve. She must have the
worlds market She long ago supplied
her own.
To have that market she must pro-
duce cheaply: cheap production means
cheap labor; cheap labor means cheap
food; cheap food means small returns to
the farmers Great Britain has dcvel-
oped her manufactures at the expense
OF her agriculture. The proof OF this is
abundant She had her corn laws. :"
which laid a duty upon breadstuGs i'm
ported into the Kingdom. These pro-
tected her farmers. To secure cheap
food for her cheap labor she, under the
leadership Of Richard Golden. repealed
those laws For forty years this has
been her policy. What has been the
result? Let US summon the witnesses
Sir Edward Sullivan, writing since
1851, says:
There l. a great and rapidly Increasing
abandonment a tillsge, W are rapidly re-
lnqaishing the power TO supply cur own
consumption and we are rapidly increas .nz
our dependence on foreign nations FOR food.
In every coanty land is going out 81 tillsge.
being laid down la grass or being abandoned
altogether. During tho last ten years i.oso.-
90 acres. one fourth Of our whole whe "a
area. has soae ont of what cuitivat on.
During the last few years this process IA.
been going on at arspifly accelerated speed.
In the meantime agriculture in al its
branches fs depressed and discourage q. n
4 looked upou a. a ruinrd Industry and an y
one eho yufs money into it = considered q
luastic. large portion of the capitsl In
vested in agriculture has been lost
The number of farming hankfuptcies has
ircreased Ak times in ten years. Bills 4
saie have rupitlplisd ten times IN I've ye "a.
Bat it may Be objected TIA; Sir FL
ward is protectionist ani bis test
nonY may % coiored b7 his personal
views wen lFEt - dH.ailFl va alit-1,
tie great free trade statistician Mulhall,
lie has recently published book ea
ttie3 Fifty Years National Progress
fs27-1Ssf Tt IL written e. show the
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years 81 free trade, ard be- maFshsls s
statistics 20 prove her a8vance in pop1-
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