Land Problems and National Welfare 



increasing in size must realise that either they 

 will have to aid in restoring prosperity to agri- 

 culture, or they must supply free food to a 

 vast and increasing army of degenerates within 

 their borders. 



I have met several Liberal Free Traders who, 

 though they would hear of no tariff on manu- 

 factured goods, were so keenly alive to the im- 

 portance of agriculture that they would agree to 

 a duty on foodstuffs. And I end this chapter 

 by expressing the hope that that excellent type 

 of Liberal may increase and multiply with the 

 utmost rapidity. 



Excerpts from Mr. Wilkin^ s pamphlet. 



LONDON MARKETS 



" Is it true that you have great complaints to 

 make of the London wholesale markets ? 



" Yes, it is quite true that they are unsuitable 

 for small men. Notwithstanding the enormous 

 growth of trade, induced by the railways, there 

 appears to be no greater number of markets in 

 London than there were two or three centuries 

 ago. The Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. 14, 

 page 829, gives the names of the eleven markets 

 existing in the time of Stowe the Chronicler, 

 which correspond nearly with the eleven at 

 present existing, and continues, ' Since the re- 

 moval of Hungerford market to make way for 

 Charing Cross Station, Covent Garden has 



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