Bad Times: An Essay on the Present Depression of Trade, Tracing it to Its Sources in Enormous Foreign Loans, Excessive War Expenditure, the Increase of Speculation and Millionaires, and the Depopulation of the Rural Districts; with Suggested RemediesMacmillan and Company, 1885 - 118 sider |
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acre actual adduced adulteration AGRICULTURAL DEPRESSION alleged allotments amount average bad seasons benefit bushels capital capitalists cause of depression cent CHAPTER Cheshire classes comparatively Cornwall cottage cotton cultivation customers debt decrease demand depopulation depression of trade destitution diminished diminution distress Dorset Dumfriesshire effect England English enormous evidence evil excessive existing Exmoor expenditure expense exports extent facts farm rent farmers foreign loans Franco-German war give Government Granborough HENRY CRAIK High Wycombe important impoverished improvements increased industries interest J. S. Mill John Stuart Mill labour Lancashire landlords large numbers legislation less Little's Report London Lord Carrington loss manufactures means ments millionaires millions nations obtained paupers peasant-farmers permanent political present depression produce profit prosperity REESE LIBRARY Remedy for Agricultural Report on Devon RURAL DEPOPULATION rural districts rural populations Russo-Turkish war spare speculation SPENCER WALPOLE Sub-Districts suffered taxation tenant thousand towns wages wasted wheat whole
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Side 66 - THE annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.
Side 98 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Side v - BAD TIMES. An Essay on the present Depression of Trade, tracing it to its Sources in enormous Foreign Loans, excessive War Expenditure, the increase of Speculation and of Millionaires, and the Depopulation of the Rural Districts. With suggested Remedies.
Side 106 - ... money and employing his spare time, and if he does not gain a large profit as a farmer, he enjoys a position of independence ; he is elevated in the social scale, his self-respect is awakened and stimulated, and he acquires a stake and interest in the country. " It is most valuable as an instance where the opportunity of investing surplus wages and spare hours in the acquirement of a home for the family, an independent position for the labourer, and provision for the wife and children in the...