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stant work at adequate wages, and not only cheap bread, but 

 also cheap meat for the people ; showing, from the result 

 of successful experiments, that, through the cultivation of 

 flax, the fattening of cattle with native produce, box-feeding 

 and summer grazing, three bullocks and three sheep may be 

 fattened where only one of each was kept before ; and that it did 

 not require a very profound calculation to discover, that a triple 

 quantity of manure thus obtained would produce a corre- 

 sponding increase in the productions of the earth, the price of 

 which is immaterial to the farmer, provided he is remunerated, 

 as is oftener the case with a plentiful crop and a low price, than 

 with a scanty one and a high price. I rejoice that measures 

 are being adopted for a vigorous extension of the above system 

 through every part of the kingdom. Already much progress 

 has been made, and I look forward with renewed confidence to 

 no very distant date, when the manufacturer shall not have cause 

 to complain that the high price of the common necessaries of life 

 prevents his successful competition with foreign markets. 



I cannot avoid expressing my surprise, that those who profess 

 so much sympathy for, and who depict so truly the horrors conse- 

 quent on, non-employment, should attempt to thwart measures 

 that would at once obtain the desired relief; should offer their 

 vague and empty theories in opposition to solid and permanent 

 benefits; — rejecting the good within their immediate reach in 

 order to grapple with phantoms which never fail to elude their 

 grasp — holding out to starving mortals the blessed prospect, 

 that with " six shillings a week " a man is to maintain himself 

 and family, and fare sumptuously upon provisions drawn from 

 foreign resources, to the encouragement of foreign farmers, and 

 to the employment of foreign labourers. To such monstrous 

 propositions mine arc diametrically opposed. They have been 

 often recorded, and centre in the desire to advance the rate of 

 wages, maintain the value of British property, and preserve 

 that proud position in the scale of nations which we have so 

 long enjoyed, recognising to the fullest extent that portion of 

 British property which the poor man alone possesses — viz. his 

 labour. In support of these principles a National Association 

 has been formed ; to co-operate in the designs of which the 

 above lines are offered as an invitation. 



