142 THE MURDER OF AGRICULTURE 



Never before has any single Parliamentary measure 

 caused such widespread havoc to national interests, 

 and never before has party interest been so well served 

 by a political move that is as subtle as the serpent and 

 as poisonous and deadly as the puff-adder. 



Were it not for this false cheap loaf cry, the sham 

 called free trade would have been dead and buried by 

 this time : slain by the inward force of its own destruc- 

 tiveness. 



" A lie that is all a lie may be met with and fought out- 

 right. 

 But a lie that is half a truth is a harder matter to fight." 



Now let us put the cheap loaf theory to the trying 

 test of truth's searchlight. 



