THE BRITISH JUGERNATH.

FREE TRADE! FAIR TRADE!! RECIPROCITY!!!RETALIATION!!!!

A gruesome huge misshapen monster void of sight.—Virgil.

BY

G. L. M.

LONDON:

E. & F. N. SPON, 125, STRAND.

1885.

Price Sixpence.

LONDON:

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Dedicated

TO

SIR EDWARD SULLIVAN, Bart.,

IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF
THE MANY VALUABLE HINTS THE AUTHOR HAS DERIVED
FROM HIS

“BUBBLES.”

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

The following squib was written in 1883, with the intentionof drawing attention to the serious danger into which we arerapidly drifting, through the suicidal policy of our rulers.

Since it was written the evils indicated therein havegreatly increased in intensity.

The interests of the producers having been completelysacrificed to those of the consumers; the results of such apolicy are becoming painfully apparent, in the increasingnumber of the unemployed, consequent on unlimited foreigncompetition.

Working men who are unable to obtain employment canno longer be persuaded, either by the plausible statistics ofMr. Giffen, or by the peevish denunciations of Mr. Bright,that, thanks to Free Trade, they are better off than theywere ever before.

Cheap food is of little avail if the means of purchasing itbe not forthcoming.

The cry for fair trade is waxing stronger and stronger.

I have endeavoured to show that a light tax on foreignwheat, would, without any appreciable increase in the costof food, probably enrich England and its dependencies tothe extent of about £60,000,000 annually; whilst at presenta large portion of this is employed in furnishing the sinewsof war which will probably be used against us.

G. L. M.

March 30th, 1885.

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