ENGLISH FARMERS AND PROTECTION.
A London daily contemporary says 5— In spite of Lord Salisbury's recqnt declaration that Protection is dead, a few farmers in Sessex and elsewhere are agitating for a duty or/a bounty fox-their bwn ; relief at the cost of the public,i in direct opposition to the advice offered them by the Premier. In the meantime they are wasting opportunities nearer home. In the western and wealthierpart of Sessex especially the farmers are protesting. They "have been shotjat long enough," they say, "both by natural foreign foes and Englishmen." But mean to- agitate; they havechosen their general, and presently this leader of theirs, Gardiner by name, who is in fact their orator, will give the magic order, " Up farmers and at them." Farmers as a rule do not readily cooperate, but as "one touch of nature makes the whole world }un," so a .pinch of pocket has united even the farmers'of West Sessex. They have met at Chichester, and this is the sort of utterance which, we understand, finds favdur among them ; —" Charge, brother fanner ! Let the cry pass from country to couutry, from shire to shire, and old England shall be free from her centre to sea !"
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2334, 2 June 1887, Page 3
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200ENGLISH FARMERS AND PROTECTION. Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2334, 2 June 1887, Page 3
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