52 TOBACCO GROWING IN GREAT BRITAIN. 



Never since the world began lias a new 

 scheme obtained public recognition without fu'st 

 incuri'ing ridicule, opposition, and abuse. The 

 present proposal will not be exempt from such 

 drags, and it is well that it should be so ; the 

 wheels of progress must needs be kept back that 

 all questions may be fairly discussed, and the 

 right method decided on, before we ignorantly 

 rush into the valley of plenty below. 



That we are sorely in need of some such step 

 as the introduction of a new industry no one 

 will deny ; let some other suggestion, equally 

 practicable, equally hopeful, equally lucrative, 

 be proposed, and we will welcome it. In the 

 meantime we remain convinced, and with us 

 many men of importance in the political and 

 agricultural world, and many thousands of 

 farmers and labourers who have already winded 

 the quarry, that the revival of tobacco growing 

 may still become a powerful means of ame- 

 liorating the financial position of agriculture 

 throughout the United Kingdom. 



It was with great interest we listened to the 

 debate on the subject of tobacco growing when 

 Lord Harris introduced the subject in the House 

 of Lords on the 30th of March. His proposal 

 that a limited number of acres should be devoted 



