U2 AaRICULTURE AND TARIFF REFORM. 



a mau to buy land up to 50 acres iu extent, mainly 

 witli the aid of public money; there is an Allot- 

 ment and Cottage Gardens Compensation for 

 Crops Act, Avliich, for the first time, enables a 

 poor man to claim compensation for the crops 

 in his garden or on his allotment, when he leaves, 

 or is turned out thereof ; there is a Market Gar- 

 deners' Compensation Act, which, for the first 

 time, secures market gardeners protection and 

 compensation in their industry ; there is the Free 

 Education Act, which Mr. Chamberlain could 

 never get Mr. Gladstone to pass, and which he 

 secured from the Unionist Party; there is the 

 Small Dwellings Acquisition Act, which enables 

 working men, in town or countrj^, to buy their 

 own houses, mainly with public money; and 

 there is the Workmen's Compensation (Agri- 

 cultural Labourers') Act, which, for the first time, 

 gives agricultural labourers compensation, in 

 money, if injured iu the course of their employ- 

 ment, and three years' wages or £150 to their 

 dependents in case of death, &c. For these and 

 other measures Mr. Chamberlain and the Union- 

 ists are directly responsible. These measures 

 were not initiated by his opponents who now are 

 so bitterly opposed to him. They had the chance 

 to pass them when in ofiice, but they refused or 

 neglected to do so. 



Perhaps, therefore, once again reviewing the 

 foregoing, the agricultural labourer will feel dis- 

 posed to judge Mr. Chamberlain by what he has 

 actually done in Parliament in connection with 

 social reform, rather than by what his political 



