88 THE MURDER OF AGRICULTURE 



ceeded in extending her foreign trade and in acquiring 

 ready markets for her continuously developing industry." 



When we consider that this pregnant utterance was 

 forced from a number of our own working men after a 

 few weeks' tour in industrial Germany, most of them 

 being out-and-out free traders, or what we wrongly 

 call free traders, and as full of blind infatuation for 

 what they considered to be the cause, as numbers of 

 their colleagues have been for years, it clearly follows 

 that if the whole of our working classes could have the 

 same opportunities of studying the fiscal conditions of 

 other countries as were given to the Gainsborough Com- 

 mission, they could only come to the conclusion that 

 there is something fundamentally wrong with the way 

 in which we conduct our own fiscal affairs. 



Keep your politicians, the many publicists who write 

 so glibly about the theories of economics, your working 

 classes and the general body of the people within the 

 shores of their own country, and their ideas on many 

 subjects remain narrow, warped and stunted, like a 

 plant that is pot-bound, but once you relieve them of 

 their cramped condition and send them abroad, where 

 their ideas have room to expand, they assume a rapid 

 growth that is most astonishing. 

 Disadvan- The famous " Silver Streak " has bestowed many a 

 Silver benefit on our land ; a hundred years ago it saved the 

 country from foreign invasion and emancipated Europe 

 from mihtary despotism; it isolates us from the rest of 

 Europe, and in isolation there is safety from sudden 

 attack. These are immense advantages, and no Britisher 



Streak 



