i88 THE MURDER OF AGRICULTURE 



earthenware and glass, and yet our own productions 

 cannot be beaten by any foreign country. 



We import nearly £6,000,000 worth of paper, every 

 pound of which could be made in our own country with 

 the greatest ease: Greater Britain supplying us with 

 practically all the raw material we require. 



These are but examples of what is going on, but it is 

 the same sickening tale in every department of indus- 

 try ; enormous sums sent to foreign countries every year 

 to make goods for us which our own people can make 

 better for themselves. 

 Employ- Will nothing ever teach us that we can make all these 

 Foreigners goods ourselves and that every million spent abroad 

 simply means providing employment for foreigners in- 

 stead of our own people? 



Shall we never learn the bitter lesson that to spend our 

 wealth on foreign industries is to crush out our own, and 

 to kill our own industries is to throw tens of thousands 

 out of employment and bring about the impoverishment 

 of a whole people? 



Let us have done with this worse than folly ; this suici- 

 dal mania which possesses us, and boldly and deter- 

 minedly declare that our own people shall be employed 

 in making practically all the goods that we require for 

 our own consumption and for export, and that, if our 

 present fiscal system does not admit of this, then it must 

 be altered and amended to an extent that will enable us 

 to do all that we require. 



We must not be turned from our purpose either by any 

 political party, that for their own reasons favour free 

 trade, of by that timid section who are afraid of adopt- 



