Show IN 11 A day or two ago we publish ai pirt part of a cablegram to ake new york I 1 0 rk inn nn saying baying that little child re 1 arn to school I 1 j it ing and mado made somo som I 1 1 L bor tice our conr do in fua i fx i acl wb a JP odda ido I 1 r wonder whether ghather the write oi I 1 01 fab above whoever lie he ina aay have 1 bf l 1 ia read the cewa from england En eland En emrih rih h newspapers news papera attribute the cause to v m 11 ki t they call their bad harvest this mis V year c jar yes yea we read the english we have before ns na while artina w r tin thie the f two we last numbers of tha mark lane express an agricultural journal and an authority on stock breeding breedin 1 published at london la in the theae 0 up ap pear letters from all over the united kingdom from farmers giving thir th ir reasons fur for the depressed condition of the agricultural industry according to these letters fannine fann inc has boon been an uphill business for many years in england and this year is not the only one when crops were bad while there is a i variety of opinions as to the bauge of this agricultural depression strange to say eay most of at the farmers ascribe it to free trade one signing himself a farming landlord after reviewing several suggested remedies writes I 1 do not trust sir in iny any of these au Euge ested rem re medie edier but put rpy faith in what I 1 believe is ia inevitable ar ard d would be here sooner were it not for the fear of ef some people that landowners would reap all the benefit which they would not namely a moderate scale of protection atis not only a agriculture r suffers from foreign com compel P ti tion guid and when the country re alises as it is beginning to do that free trade is not mhd universal panacea that its early advocates held it i t to be we shall have bay what is ia now beginning a reaction in bayor ol of a moderate protective tarin commenting editorially on the same question the mark lane express says the question as we have said is cot out one for farmers alone for it is i also a most serious one for the nation the present state of affairs points to the direct ruin of the farlins class apart from the fact that it is a bad thing for the nation to have one of its most IM important industries reduced to bank there is also aleo the great question qa estion of food supply itla itis true that we can purchase sufficient corn from other countries who will only be ba too glad to sell it here but this unfortunately means a still greater loss to the nation for in id the present state of bad trade it is ia hardly likely that our exports can ba increased to amount of churi means a direct 1 air act n na dional losi leas for every quarter of cf c co n which is ut ot one thine wi w may rest reat assured aured as things cannot tie h allowed to remain as they arv arr fr fir f ir loni long such is british sentiment tr i from the press or as fresh wa can get here lauy more might be cited but enough wo trust has been given to io show that free trade is ia not looked upon with much favor by the farmers of the united kingdom dem they are free to confess that it has caused the ruination of what was once a leading industry of tho aboe e fruitful little islea about four years ago bisbo thie the writer antna travel a most cost furtillo portion of england and he ha therl then baw large tracts 0 oi land lying waste he inquired as to the cau causland seand the answer came promptly prom free trade has done it we cannot compete against your american farmers or the wheat fields ot of the volga |