OBJECTIONS. 97 



Agricultural Education. 



Undoubtedly, education is at the root of many 

 successes in life; indeed, no industry can be 

 carried on with, the greatest success unless the 

 education is of the most perfect kind. 



Of what avail, however, is education, whether 

 to a townsman or to a farmer, if, when he has 

 obtained it he is driven out of the market by 

 the foreigner? Education will not get one over 

 the foreigner's tariff wall ! If we want to send 

 1 cwt. of butter to France or to Germany, we 

 must pay a stiff price to the authorities of either 

 country for the privilege of being able to do so ; 

 but, if a farmer in either of these two countries 

 — or any other country — wishes to send butter 

 to our country he is allowed to do so. Our policy, 

 in fact, at present is, " Let 'em all come," paupers 

 and criminals as well. 



The foreigner thus has his own market and 

 ours in which to sell his butter, &c., whilst we 

 have the British market alone. So long as a 

 foreign farmer makes a good price at home in his 

 own country, he can undersell the Britisher, and 

 gradually wipe him out of existence. What 

 applies to one British farmer applies to the whole 

 lot; and yet we are asked by some queer people 

 to look on whilst this process of gradual extinc- 

 tion is being accomplished. And we are told to 

 look quietly on at it because the rest of England 

 would benefit. Does anybody suppose that when 

 our farmers are finally crushed out the foreign 



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