A BRIEF EXAMINATION OP FREE-TRADE TRINCirLES 363 



and its people reduced to emigration to avoid starvation ; while 

 the majority would practically be driven back to the land. 



Here is a little statement of Tacts showin<^ the })Ositiou of the 

 United Kingdom and some other countries in respect to trade 

 and manufactures, the people's savings, taxable area as determined 

 by the Income-tax lieturns of this country and Germany, 

 emigration, etc., for periods varying from 1875 uj) to 1907. 



Exports 



Comparative Exports % 

 (a) Domestic Produce and Manufactures 



Note. — United Kingdom figures exclude now ships and their machinery not 

 recorded prior to 1899, German figures include sliips and "improvement 

 trade " since 1897. 



* Statistical Abstract for the United Kingdom, Gd. 4258 and 42G5 



t Percentages calculated by the author. 



t The " Tarid-rcformcr's Tockct Book," 1909. 



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