Show NOT THE CAUSE this item Is from rora the globe demo crat the cities of england are prow ing rap idly at the expense of tile tho rural districts tho the population of england and wales in ll 11 vaa a of whom or GG per or cent lived in cities callos of over inhabitant grobi tants in MI essl of a total population of at rj WW tho the number living in cities was i or W 15 per cont cent but it MUSE be it that british angrl angri culture Is in a particularly bad way lord salisbury lias has just raid eald that it has haa bem almost killed by free trade there are other reasons reano nii for its lt incline but this la Is undoubtedly one of the iho foremost when lord salisbury says that british agriculture has been almost killed by free trade lie does not state the facts acts british agriculture thrived under free trade exceedingly up to about eighteen years ago when tho the ot of silver by the united states and the central european states began to take effect then agriculture began to decline tile matter was pre rented to lord salisbury live five years ago it was vias explained to him that the trouble had come not through tree free trade but through the drawing anait of 0 silver and cold which put the british as well mell as the american on it ft level with the naked laborers of 0 indal and egypt ills his reply was that he knew it but that he did not dare do anything that would increase the cost of oc living to english operatives era tives because of tho the manufacturing industry and avei everything athing that stood lit in the way of 0 that must suiter suffer it was then tho the great estates ot of En angland glovin a besan began to grow worthless it was then tho the tenants of 0 the lands landa at 0 england angland could no longer pay rent it was then that the 0 owners tiers of 0 great lands landed estates who lived in london found that their usual revenue from those estates had bad disappeared E england to 1 the only country in ill tile the world that luring during the last few years has ha been can able to catry cat ry cin cat flea fi cv trade the 1 cabona why she has hafl been ablo able to leave lave been MELIA test she sacrificed everything else clae to her trade anu and to the interests of her ter adherers ather ers now another a erl ous oua business ii 19 coming uron upon tho the men of england they are doing business on a gold eold basils the silver countries that have all the time been silver countries pay the same m number of rupees or shillings or yens or whatever they pay their laborers that they formerly did mia and the result la Is that there li is a direct discrimination against gold old standard countries of 0 BO 60 per cent and this will result in cloning the factories ot of england and of 0 tho the united states when the pressure grows brows a little strong a cr r it Is through that that thai we may hope for or silver when the great manufacturing establishments of the world reach a point when they can no longer pay their operatives then silver will be restored we fear ear that it will not be until that time lime c oman comes but fortunately as things aro are moving that will have to be pretty soon this ll Is tho the time when a little statesmanship a on the part of 0 the president ident at 0 the united states if he could but see things aright and would but use the influx enco of 0 his great to bring a around ran nil an early adjustment could do more for or ills hla fellow beings than any president has before lie ile could stop such losses to the american people as could lie he but have any conception of 0 them he would notwithstanding ills cold nature in bo 0 pat paralyzed with tho the wrongs which art are being committed |