156 THE MURDER OF AGRICULTURE 



from i860 to 1905, compiled from the Reports of the 

 Royal Commission on Depression of Trade, and those'of 

 the Local Government Boards for England and Wales 

 and Scotland. 



ENGLAND AND WALES 



If there is anything in this world calculated to arouse 

 British tax-payers to a sense of their own peril and to a 

 realisation of the cruel wrong they have suffered for long 

 weary years from this pauper yoke, it is the fact which is 

 here disclosed. 



Not only has the cost of each pauper in England and 

 Wales risen from £6 ys. 8d. in 1860-64 to £15 13s. 9d. in 

 1904-05, or considerably more than doubled, and will in- 

 crease as much in the future as it has in the past, but the 



