84 THE MURDER OF AGRICULTURE 

 has been running parallel with protective duties. Wages 

 have also risen; and the tendency of the day is that they 

 will rise still higher. 



" At Hochst, near Frankfort, as we pointed out in a 

 previous report, people eat wheaten bread as well as 

 bread made of wheat and rye flour mixed. A loaf of white 

 bread made at Hochst, v/eighing four English pounds, 

 should cost ^|d. The Gainsborough quartern loaf costs 

 4|d., so that the difference in price is hardly perceptible. 

 Where then does the extreme pressure on the German 

 consumer come in, in regard to the price of bread, as 

 compared with the English consumer? We must note 

 that Germany feeds nine-tenths of her population from 

 her own grain. 



" As regards wages and the conditions of labour in 

 Germany, people in England cannot dispel from their 

 minds pictures that have been shown them of times 

 gone by. It is difficult to make them understand that 

 Germany has not been standing still, but had been 

 developing in methods and in wealth by leaps and 

 bounds since 1870. The British voters will have to learn, 

 sooner or later, that German labour competes with 

 British labour, and that the condition of German work- 

 men has developed for the good since 1879, when Bis- 

 marck made the fiscal policy of the Empire a protec- 

 tionist one again. 



" They came to the conclusion that their export in- 

 dustry flourished more under the tariff that existed 

 from 1850-1860, than under Liberalism and free tariffs 

 from i860 to 1870. Germans admit that they have made 

 enormous progress during the last thirty years, and this 



