i86 THE MURDER OF AGRICULTURE 



spread unemployment, and induced an enormous 

 amount of unnecessary poverty among the people. 



Let us say — we don't mind paying, and paying liberally 

 to help the people to become self-supporting and self- 

 respecting citizens, but we insist that our money be 

 spent in a manner that will directly help them onward to 

 general prosperity. 

 Employment -yy-g must find employment for every man, woman and 



for Every- jt ^ j 



body child in the Kingdom by restoring every one of our lost 

 industries, and where it is necessary to alter our fiscal 

 laws to afford these industries the necessary encourage- 

 ment and protection, we must alter them in a manner 

 that will afford our people as much protection as is 

 offered in Germany, the United States, and other States, 

 whose manufactures have killed many of our own 

 industries. 



'v.We must have no further paltering with this subject, 

 neither must we listen further to political wire-pullers 

 about " free trade " and the " cheap loaf " cry, be- 

 cause it is as clear as daylight that ' ' free trade ' ' is the 

 cause of all our troubles, while we have discovered that 

 those countries which protect themselves against us supply 

 a loaf just as cheap as we do. 



We are absolutely certain that our lost industries can 

 only be restored to us by these means, and we will not 

 cease in our efforts till the present laws are repealed and 

 a code more generous and helpful to our own people set 

 up in their place. 



Full employment for the unemployed, full work for 

 our workers, and the establishment of a sound basis, 

 upon which will be built up the general prosperity of a 



