A BlUEF EXAMINATION OF FIIKE-TRADE PrJNCIPLES SOf) 



E-MKiUATION 



(From Cd. 4258 and 42G5: 1908.) 



1901 

 l'J02 

 l'J03 

 lii04 

 1905 

 190G 

 1907 



Average 



Population. 



5G,874,000 

 57,7G7,000 

 58,G29,00O 

 59,475,000 

 G0,G41,278 

 G 1,1 77, 000 

 G2,097,0O0 

 7)41G,6G0,278 

 ^59,522,897 



Germany. 



Emigration. 



22,07 :^ 

 32,098 



3G,:no 



27,984 

 28,075 

 31,074 

 31,69G 

 7)209,310 

 29.901 



j-Roiiglily 1 in every 

 (^ 2,000 perbous. 



Engli.sli, Scotch, and 

 Irish Emigrants only. 



f Rous;hly 1 in every 

 \ IGO persons. 



In other words — 12i times as many British subjects find the necessity fur 

 emigrating from the Unifed Kingdoin as Qerman suhj'ects do from the 

 Fatherlaiid — a crushing indictment of the British Free-trade system. 



National Debt 

 (From Cd. 4258 and 4265 : 1908.) 



United Kinc;dom 

 Germany . . . 

 France . . . 

 Austria-Hungary 



1886. 



739.882,117 



30,574,000 



986,475,129 



1896. 



652,286,000 



110,530,000 



1,036,572,355 



552,070,000 



1900. 



788,990,187 



180,263,000 



1,035,382,276 



626,090,000 



The rise and full of the volume of the National Debt is not an infallible 

 guide of a nation's prosperity or adversity, and a decrease in a country's 

 liabilities does not necessarily mean national prosperity. 



This plain statement of fact offers evidence of so practical 

 and irrefutable a quality as to the falseness of the conclusions 

 arrived at by the writer of " The Free-trade Movement " as to 

 leave him apparently without a vestige of justification for what 

 must meanwhile be regarded, by every reasonably-minded person 

 in the kingdom, as a most unwarrantable attack on the verity 



