56 ACiRICL'LTUKE AND TAllIFF REFOKM. 



SrEKcii, January 15th, 1845 (London). 



(33). " You compete with foreigners now, and 

 all we say is that you will be able to do so better 

 if you have your bread at the same price as your 

 competitors have." 



Note. — We wonder if the Cohdenitcs of to-day vcill 

 adopt this argument. They have been saying all o%^er 

 the country, that bread is cheaper in England than 

 abroad. All Cobden icanted apparently xoas that our 

 bread should be as cheap as the foreigners, which, at 

 the time he spohe, was not the case! And yet the 

 foreigners were, and still are, Protectionists ! 



(34). " The introduction of more corn, cattle, 

 butter, and cheese, will not hurt the farmer in 



this couutrv." 



Note. — Then why is the farmer, in 90 cases out of 100, 

 asking fur the adoption of ^dr. Chamberlain's pre- 

 ferential tariff prnposcds? And ifhy has foreign com- 

 2-)ctition lowered prices so much and made labm:r so 

 scarce? 



Speech, Makch 13x11, 1845 (IIotjse of Commons). 



(35). " The vraut of capital is the greatest want 



among the farmers, and the want of leases is the 



cause of the want of capital." 



Note. — Farmers, in the great majoritij of cases, nould 

 be glad to have a little more capital even to-day, but 

 they certainly don't want leases, and only in exceptional 

 cases will they take them. Besides, they had more 

 capitcd years ago than they have to-day. 



(30). " Take cheese. There is not a farmer 

 but who makes his own cheese for the consump- 

 tion of his servants.'' 



Note. — There is searccly a farmer, except in the cheese- 

 ninking dlsiriris, to-day, who docs anything of the sort 



