i64 THE MURDER OF AGRICULTURE 



Judged by comparison with other countries the 

 United Kingdom can employ and support some thirteen 

 milHons of persons on her lands. She now employs but 

 2,262,452, and employs and supports under 4,000,000. 



Briefly, agriculture can employ and support profitably 

 and honourably nine to ten million more people than it 

 does to-day. 



The pauper population proper, i.e., the aged and infirm 

 and those whose bodily or mental condition renders 

 work practically impossible, numbers 782,602 persons. 



This leaves 341,82c, at least, for whom work must be 

 found, and it is evident, that with reasonable land ten- 

 ures and a properly organised and liberally equipped 

 system of agriculture, there would be no difficulty in 

 finding suitable work for this comparatively small num- 

 ber of our unemployed and for millions more. 

 Unemployed Let US carry the matter a step further to see what 

 would be the effect on the condition of the people of find- 

 ing work for the unemployed and converting the pauper- 

 population into an army of wage-earners. 



Fortunately, we need not resort to speculation as to 

 results, because we have the experience of other 

 countries to serve as a reliable guide. 



In most of the European States pauperism does not 

 cause them much trouble, because, owing to general em- 

 ployment on the land, there is really no need for it. The 

 great land industry works side by side with trades and 

 manufactures, and tends to preserve a fairly exact 

 equilibrium between supply and demand in the labour 

 market. 



A report on the trade of Germany by Dr Paul 



