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CONTENTS 



Introduction ......... 



The birth of agriculture ....... 



Uow British agriculture was destroyed — Its incompatibility with 

 manufactures — What Free-traders contend .... 



How agriculture might have been saved — The contentions of 

 anti-Free-traders ........ 



What anti-Free-traders think of Free-trade and of the phe- 

 nomenal poverty and growing imemployment 



Poverty not a necessity — Contrasts in home and foreign statistics 

 — The people's error and the people's responsibilities 



More auti-Free-trade objections — Loss of agricultural wealth — 

 Shrinkage in taxable area — Heavier burdens on tax-payers 



What onlookers think of Free-trade ..... 



What onlookers think of Free-trade {continued') 



The pauper question m England and iu Germany : A comparison 

 — Free-trade economists fail to explain cause of increasing 

 destitution ......... 



Problem for the British tax-payer — Pauperism unnecessary — Will 

 they continue to support it ? — How to deal with vagabondage . 



National pauperism and taxation — Colossal amount of private 

 charities — How philanthropists unconsciously bolster up Free- 



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Shortage of work in our trades and manufactures — Increase in 

 manufacturing wealth means loss of agricultural wealth — In 

 other words, Class Legislation !..... 



How our public men miss the way — Pauperism and unemploy- 

 ment a result of existing conditions — A proper appreciation of 

 cause and effect essential ....... 



Unemployment — Congestion' in trades, professions, and industries 

 — Cause and effect — Who and what are to blame? 



The "Cheap" Loaf cry — Price of bread — England and other 

 countries — How the people have been misled 



Tariffs do not affect the price of bread — The German " black " 

 bread fallacy exposed ....... 



Old-age pensions in England and in Germany — A comparison — 

 A contributory scheme sound — Non-contributory scheme a 

 State charity ......... 



The sacrifice of agriculture — The burden falls upon all classes — 

 How Great Britain can grow all her own food supplies . 



The sacrifice of agriculture (continued') — Great Britain can grow 

 all her own food supplies ....... 



How war would intensify poverty — Grave peril to the nation — 

 Our food supplies at the mercy of enemies' agents," comerers," 

 and speculators ......... 



The fallacies of economic science — Its inapplicability to agri- 

 culture .......... 



Discouragers and pessimists — The part they play iu the agri- 

 cultural question — Under similar conditions, agriculture can be 

 as successful as manufactures ...... 



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