Show FREE TRADE IN JN GREAT BRITAIN k 1 pS J Ellis Barl Darker Barker or the Eng ish tari tariff l' l reformer folmer has ha S iome ome to America to study the tariffs and declares that free fre ade h has s i impoverished Great Britain He lie S. S says fays it it is through fre trade that British agriculture 5 5 ha has almost been destt destroyed ed and that Ireland used to live practically entirely by agric agriculture Up to 1846 wl vl v hi n fr e c tr trade de was as it had about inhabitants He declares that at that S S S t m mIl Il pr produced duco f food od not only for those thoc S of h her hir r oWn yn people but for OOOO En- En beside eside When free trade trad was introduced S there was no o alternative occupation to take the of agriculture and so th the Irish people were starve Toda Today sh she does docs not produce enough S 5 for fort her 0 own OO people The The wl wheat ea area of or that c cOuntry has shrunk from acres to less r ti than an acres The truth about the matter is h th this s. s S There wore were reasons why England should introduce intro intro- duce free trade It was a clear case that her factories fac fac- factories factories tories her mines mines of coal and aid iron iron and tin her manufactories which exceeded those of ot any an other I country ry her ships which equaled almost all the tho ships in the thc world in ill number her money which equaled quae about half the total of tb the earth placed her ju jn n a position to sell her manufactured goo goods s at I s immense profits and to buy raw buy back raw mat material rial at whatever price she pleased But in doing that she left her agriculturists out of the count because they W wore were re fewer in number number num nurn- ber her than the mechanics and artisans who produced h her r m manufactured goods and when after Qui our war warthe warthe warthe the railroads had been extended far out into the western prairies it was vas possible for American exporters exporters exporters ex ex- ex- ex porters to lay wheat and live stock in Liverpool cheaper than it was to produce either on the rented ian lands s of Great Brittain So agriculture began bogan to decline England figured it out as an exact exact ex ex- act problem that it was better to give the artisans who made her manufactured goods cheap foo food than to support her hel agricultural population as it had hall been in the habit of being supported with the result re re- re suit sult that the men of the tho soil in that country have det deteriorated and lost hope and this eminent man manfrom manfroni from froni abroad says that in the United Kingdom Kingdon agriculturists agriculturists agri agri- culturists have been impoverished |