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Show crippled and that land values have shrunk by hundreds hun-dreds of millions. Mr. Chamberlain makes the astoundins statement state-ment that thirteen millions , of people of Great Britain are underfed, and bitterly contrasts their condition with that of. the people of the United States. He point ont. that other nations are prosperous pros-perous and are surpassing Great Britain in every line of trade and business. .. .Such conditions are terrible. The world gener-fl.Hj gener-fl.Hj 1 prosperous, and there is no reason why Eng land should not have her share of prosperity. Of course, her wretched war with the Boers did much to impoverish her, but other nations have speedily recovered from the effects of just as costly conflicts, lhe trouble is with the people of the-nation. They ; are in a rut) and they do not know how to get out of it. They are .living in the past Their business methods have undergone no change in decades, while nearly every other nation has kept step with the commercial procession. ; England has gone ponderously pon-derously and blindly on her mistaken way, never heeding other nations and refusing t profit by their example. The menace of a panic in England is a menace t6 the world. It would injure the trade of many other countries, and it would cause the greatest suffering in Great Britain. It is to be hoped that Mr. Cham-berlain's Cham-berlain's predictions will not come true, but it looks very much as if they will. Tcrribls Plight of England. The condition of England at the present time is desperate, and according to Joseph Chamberlain, who should know what he is talking about, there is worse to come. He says that agriculture ha been |