TARIFFS DO NOT AFFECT THE PKIGE OF BREAD 151 



" Here is a letter recently written to the Daihj Exirrosa — 

 " ' Sir, — Two years ago we heard a lot about the big loaf that 

 the working men were going to get. I was recently looking through 

 some old weekly bills, and compared them with those of the present 

 time — 



Coal 



U lbs. butter . . 

 4 lbs. sug.ar . . 

 8 loaves bread . . 

 i gallon flour . 

 2 gallons potatoes 

 \ gallon paraffin . 



8 0^ 10 5 



U ( 



I think you will agree with me that all these articles are 

 necessities, and yet the^;r/6'e is increased 'dO per cent. 



' A Working Man.' " 



" There you have it shown that it costs 2s. ■\:\d. a w-eek more 

 now than it did three years ago for coals, butter, sugar, bread, flour, 

 oil, and potatoes. Other things are dearer also. 



" Out with that Fraud of Frauds, a Radical Government." 



What othek People say 



Other evidence of the harm our present free list tariffs have 

 done to the people is abundant and convincing. Indeed, the 

 grave danger that this country is incurring by an obstinate 

 adherence to a worn-out system of economics, which is as 

 unsuited to the requirements of the times as a worn-out glove 

 is to the rough work of grasping thistles, has called forth such 

 a host of speakers and writers that " the man in the street " 

 who wishes to learn something of the subject will iiud no 

 difficulty in determining the matter for himself. 



What the Wkiter knows 



The writer himself, who is neither a Protectionist nor a 

 Free-trader nor a member of any political party in the State, 

 can add his testimony to this mass of evidence. He has spent 

 four months in Germany during the last two years, and can 

 vouch from his own experience that bread is not dearer in 

 Germany, despite her ring of tariffs, than it is in this country, 

 and that the " Black " bread argument is sheer nonsense ; 

 Germans are no more compelled to eat " Black " bread, because 

 they are too poverty-stricken to buy white, than English 



