CHAPTER IV 

 GERMANY 



UP to a few decades ago Germany was 

 mainly an agricultural country, and not 

 only provided what food supplies she wanted for 

 herself, but had a substantial surplus to send else- 

 where. Since then, however, the industrial in- 

 terests of the Empire have developed so rapidly 

 that they constitute a formidable rival of the 

 agricultural interests at home, just as they are the 

 recognized rivals of manufacturing countries else- 

 where. So between Agrarians and Industrials 

 in the German Fatherland there is an unceasing 

 strife. The industrials are draining more and 

 more labour from the country districts into the 

 towns, and they look with comparative uncon- 

 cern on the fact that Germany is now importing, 

 rather than exporting, food supplies, declaring, 

 as they do in effect, that all this is to the 

 real interest of the people, inasmuch as the 

 expansion of manufactures will be more pro- 

 fitable to the nation than the concentration 



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