i8 THE MURDER OF AGRICULTURE 

 The following table, compiled from The Statesman's 



Year-Book, will show how terribly the nation has been 



drained of its robust manhood. 



From 1815 to i860 the emigrants from the United 



Kingdom totalled 5,046,067, but let us also deal with 



several later periods. 



These figures, terrible as they are in their significance, 

 only tell one story, and it is this : The people's greatest 

 industry, having been killed by a cruel but mistaken 

 policy, millions of England's sons and daughters have 

 found the necessity of leaving the country which gave 

 them birth, to — avoid starvation! 



And we are further alarmed by the startHng fact that 

 in spite of the enormous expansion of national trade 

 which has been experienced during the last few years, 

 this appalling drain on the manhood of the country is 

 still found to be a pressing necessity, the aggregate for 

 the years 1905 and 1906 being 1,017,732, or an average 

 for the two years of 508,866 ; in other words : 



"The heaviest emigration drain synchronises 

 with phenomenal trade expansion." 



