X INTRODUCTION. 



kind of reserve of labour, to which recourse could be had by 

 the farmer in busy times, to the mutual benefit of each. 

 To check the monopolizing system in land, and to give effi 

 cacy to the cottage and small farm system, let a graduated 

 tax be levied on all occupiers who retain in their possession 

 more than 100 acres, to be appropriated to the use of the 

 poor; this would effectually put a stop to the system now in 

 practice, of holding more than can be cultivated to the best 

 advantage to the country, and would, perhaps, keep three or 

 four families, and employ double the number of labourers 

 it now does, if divided and conducted with energy. Numbers 

 of large farms might easily be pointed out at the present 

 moment, capable of keeping a great increase of stock, 

 and producing much more grain than they now do. The 

 Avant of capital .is, perhaps, the chief obstacle that pre 

 vents large farms being cultivated to the best advantage; 

 nine out of ten of their occupiers have had their capitals 

 reduced by these retrograding times, and, unwilling to lose 

 any of their dignity or appearance in society, continue to 

 occupy them, though at a certain loss. To counteract the 

 growing and pernicious influence of immense monopolizing 

 capitals, and further to relieve the poor and industrious 

 classes, let taxes be taken off every article and commodity 

 of general utility, and the necessaries of life, and put on 

 property and luxury only. 



Whatever difference in opinion may be held respecting the 

 causes of the frequent embarrassments of the agricultural 

 and manufacturing interests, and the more severe privations 

 of the labouring classes, all must acknowledge its frequent 

 existence, and the paramount necessity of an adequate and 

 speedy remedy. Whether our rulers, or any body of the 

 people, take the case up seriously, before it manifests itself 

 in a more forcibly convincing manner, remains to be seen. 

 But if they do not, emigration appears to me the only re 

 medy in the hands of those who may have&quot; sufficient money 

 to carry them out of the influence of the evil out of the 

 country. In case such an event be the alternative adopted, 

 the following sheets may be of some service to direct in 

 the choice of a situation. 



