[32] Area of the United States = 3,602,300 sq. miles. Area of England and its dependencies = 8,982,200 sq. miles.
[33] It may be argued that America is a more compact dominion, but steam and electricity annihilate space, and England’s immense superiority in area far more than outweighs the advantage of compactness.
[34] It must be understood that, in all the statistics above given, “England” and “America” are intended to mean—the United Kingdom and the United States respectively.
[35] The Mail, Dec. 19th, 1883.
[CHAPTER X.]
TREACHERY IN THE CAMP.
How is it, that the men of the working class, who are nominally free-traders, are practically protectionists?
How is it, to use the words of Mr. Wise, an ardent apologist for free trade, that—
“In 1846, the working classes overthrew protectionism in England, and in 1878 the same classes, wherever they have obtained predominant influence, are carrying into practice the extreme theories of their old opponents?”