Show Doctoring a Symptom Chancellor Lloyd George of Gre Great t Britain believes that if he can ever cause his land tax bill to crystallize into law it will cure most st of the present ills of his country especially the sorrows of th the farmers But shrewd as he is he has never thought of the argument which would make most Cl f i t to the people the real situation It would be something like this J Our country lives through its s manufactures and foreign 1 tade de We Ve cannot have our obstructed by f n s when they go and come from their work Hence we have never fenced nUl fields The result has been that wild live stock from abroad lu ve ravished our harvests The United States has trampled do dOIi our fields in bringing in its wheat and corn and pork and lard So has Denmark in bringing in butter and eggs ggs so has as the Netherlands in bringing in beef e f so has southern Europe in bringing bringing bring bring- ing in h her r fruit Even our own colonies Canada and Australia and nd even India have joined in treading down our harvests to bring to us their cheap products lYe Te might have stopped most of this ye years years- rs ago by putting up substantial fences but we are opposed to fences on general principles and in the interest of our m manUfacturers But if we can do away with there will vill be s so many farmers at work that they can guard their O own fields and thus our national policy win will be vindicated Llo Lloyd George George d-George cannot see that he is seeking a remedy for a symptom and knows nothing of the real disease which causes the He is seeking to tap his country for dropsy and is doing nothing fot the diseased liver whicH is causing t the e dropsy |