354 AWAKENING OF ENGLAND. 



own the market-place exercise control over 

 the motors. 



It should be thoroughly realised that there 

 are already quite enough demands made upon 

 that "unskilled labourer," the tiller of the 

 soil. Besides being a gardener, stock-keeper, 

 carpenter, woodman, thatcher,hedger, plumber, 

 etc., it is expected of him that he shall as well 

 be a good business man. This expectation is, 

 of course, preposterous. The mechanic draw- 

 ing good wages in the town never has to sell 

 anything but his labour, and yet he is ranked 

 higher than the cultivator of the soil, who has 

 not only to be a skilled workman, but also to 

 be a crafty man of business if he is not to 

 go under in the struggle for existence. 



There is, we know, a kind of small stock- 

 keeper who is also a dealer. He is a good 

 business man in a pettifogging way. But, 

 nationally speaking, no economic progress is 

 made by farmers changing cattle in the sterile 

 game of skinning one another in the process. 

 It is the man who is producing store stock, 

 milk, and crops with whom we are concerned, 

 and it is a melancholy reflection that the best 

 cultivators of holdings are often the worst 

 business men. It is a pity that they should 



