192 THE MURDER OF AGRICULTURE 



without State aid and encouragement, the State must 

 come to the people's rescue. 



The State must help on this industry in various ways ; 

 by sensible and helpful land tenures, by the creation of 

 millions of small occupying proprietorships ; by the estab- 

 lishment and regulation of a low scale of railway rates 

 whereby the free movement of agricultural produce may 

 be facilitated throughout the country ; by the establish- 

 ment of a multitude of municipal markets ; and generally 

 by practical, wise and helpful administration. 



Having done so much, wherefrom a general improve- 

 ment in the economic condition of the people will spring 

 as surely as the sun gives us of his light and warmth ; the 

 State will be in a position to consider how it can best 

 apply the largely increased revenue, which must be a 

 direct result of increased prosperity. 

 Agncul- n jja^g already been shown in these pages that the agri- 

 Wealth cultural wealth of the United Kingdom has decreased 

 during the last thirty years by the stupendous sum of 

 £1,000,000,000 (some writers put it at a much higher 

 figure) and it follows, as night the day, that if this enor- 

 mous wealth be restored to the country, aye, even 

 greatly augmented as it can be by a splendid system of 

 universal agriculture, the like of which this country has 

 never yet experienced, large increases of revenue must 

 result from it. 



One of the cries of the tariff reformers is : 



" Tariff reform means less income-tax and work for 

 all." But as it stands it is not true. 



Paraphrased as under, it means truth, absolute and 

 positive. 



