104 THE MURDER OF AGRICULTURE 



dustrial expansion. Considerable expansion has, in fact, 

 been experienced during the last few years in practically 

 all the great trading states of the world, and, per se, this 

 is neither remarkable nor significant. 



There are, however, certain factors in the position 



which are of remarkable significance, and we must not 



ignore them, if we are determined to sift this matter to 



the bottom. 



Foreign Industrial expansion in Germany and the United 



Industrial 



Expansion States IS not attended by congested labour markets and 

 consequent scarcity of employment, because such a 

 condition would be impossible in those countries. 



In both Germany and the United States industries 

 are united to agriculture, and each assists the other. In 

 Germany, for example, we find from The Statesman's 

 Year Book, 1906, that her farms supported 18,066,663 

 persons, of whom 8,156,045 were actually working upon 

 them. 



The land industry provides for eighteen millions of the 

 population, and the rest is simple enough. Agriculture, 

 in short, draws away so many workers that all other indus- 

 tries find it difficult to obtain the necessary supply of labour. 



In these countries, as in all other countries of the 

 world, agriculture is the chief industry, and all others 

 are subsidiary to it. 



In our country agriculture and manufactures are not 

 allied, but divorced. They are not sister industries, help- 

 ing each other by natural affinities, but living apart and 

 working independently of each other. There is no bond 

 of sympathy and strength between them, and because 

 there is no unity the nation suffers. 



