(16.) English agricultural industries are rapidly being ruined by free trade.
(17.) In the last eleven years, about 1,200,000, acres have gone out of tillage in the United Kingdom, and about 7,400,000 acres are lying fallow.
(18.) Numerous farms are untenanted, or let at nominal rates.
(19.) The loss to the agricultural classes within the last few years has been estimated at £150,000,000.[2]
(20.) Many English landowners are realizing what they can from the wreck, and investing the capital in Protectionist America.
(21.) English manufacturing industries are, for the most part, on the high road to ruin.
(22.) Silk industry is nearly extinct in England.
(23.) Cotton and woollen industries are struggling hard for existence.
(24.) Iron industries are said to have lost £160,000,000 in four years.
(25.) Protectionist countries have outstripped England in relative increase of commerce.