Show ENGLAND AND HER FARMERS A rich man has ha bought up thousands thousands' thousands thousands' of acres of land and near the village of Rhinebeck N. N Y t torn rn down th he the houses of f old la residents and arid converted the great tract into a de deer r park The land n not t being cultivated cultivated and the p people Op e going aw away 1 the revenues of the county and the village have fallen off greatly and the village is in half despair The New York World cites cites' a like state of affairs in England in these hese words word's Here we we see see upon American soil th that t evolution of home lands into deer parks which has so deteriorated deteriorated deteriorated orated English phy physique and so made England dependent dependent dependent de de- de- de pendent upon foreign food We believe U that at is a a mistake There ere were about as many many deer parks in inE E England gland fort forty years ago agos as s there are now and then England depended depend d up upon n her own own products to feedler teed freed her leI ler people But during the last forty years such changes have lave come in th the methods of transportation atio 1 that the Dakota bakota kota wheat raisers c can n lay wheat down in Liverpool Liverpool Liverpool Liver Liver- pool at a cost so low that the English farmer cannot cannot cannot can can- not pay his rentals and compete with the farmer wl who lives ives 1500 miles mil s from the oceans ocean's shore That is what has caused the English farmer to deteriorate His hope has died i Lord Churchill saw this a and d wanted va ted a tariff put upon imported food sufficient to enable the English f farmer armer to tb live But England lives by trade sl she e wants goods made as cheaply as possible and so recoiled re recoiled recoiled re- re coiled before the proposition to make mak the food of her factory operatives advance in value She is willing willingto to starve her farmers in order to feed cheaper her factory hands I When wealthy m men n buy up great tracts tracts' of land and put them out of cultivation a good pl plan n would be e to t tax x the lands just as though Jh- Jh they were under cultivation 1 |