FOOTNOTES:
[89] See [Appendix No. II], in which is a resumé of the unheeded warnings, drawn up in 1880, from the arguments brought against the Bill. Any one not blinded by party prejudices, who read those arguments, could not fail to see that the Bill must be a measure of confiscation; and the subsequent action of the Bill shows that the forebodings have been verified.
[90] Froude, the historian, writing in 1880, says:—“The policy has been to make the property of the landlords worthless, and their possession so dangerous, that they would find their estates not worth keeping.”
[91] ‘Political Economy’—Bastiat.
[92] Westminster Review, October, 1883.
[93] Nineteenth Century, September, 1880.
[CHAPTER XXV.]
DEAR CHEAP FOOD.
Don’t you see, what a fallacy underlies your cry for cheap bread. Does the consumer eat nothing but bread? Is everything to be sacrificed to the consumer? Don’t you see that cheap bread is not all that is necessary to prosperity.