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is still there. " Voila le terrible ! " cries the 

 farmer Houdequin, in La Terre, " D'un c6te" 

 nous autres les paysans, qui avons besoin de 

 vendre nos grains a un prix remunerateur. 

 De 1'autre, 1'industrie, qui pousse a la baisse, 

 pour diminuer les salaires. C'est la guerre 

 acharne"e . . . 911 ne peut pas finir. . . 

 Si le paysan vend bien son b!6 1'ouvrier meurt 

 de faim ; si 1'ouvrier mange, c'est le paysan 

 qui creve. . . . Alors, quoi ? Je ne sais 

 pas, devorons-nous les uns les autres ! " The 

 urban population of Germany are only 

 prevented from sweeping away protective 

 food-taxes by the existing distribution of 

 Parliamentary constituencies, which assigns a 

 grotesquely unfair share of political power to 

 the agrarian districts. And it is significant 

 that the great and wealthy United States is 

 ridding herself of many protective imposts 

 on food as well as manufactured articles, at a 

 moment when our English Tariff Reformers 

 are struggling to reimpose similar duties, long 

 since discarded 1 



2. Trades Unionism 



Amongst the regularly employed workmen 

 in the kingdom the agricultural labourer has 

 been for centuries by common consent the 

 most neglected. Parliamentary help is rarely 



