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THE BRITISH JUGERNATH.

FREE TRADE! FAIR TRADE!! RECIPROCITY!!! RETALIATION!!!!

A gruesome huge misshapen monster void of sight.--_Virgil._

BY

G. L. M.

Dedicated

TO

SIR EDWARD SULLIVAN, BART.,

IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE MANY VALUABLE HINTS THE AUTHOR HAS DERIVED FROM HIS

“BUBBLES.”

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

The following squib was written in 1883, with the intention of drawing attention to the serious danger into which we are rapidly drifting, through the suicidal policy of our rulers.

Since it was written the evils indicated therein have greatly increased in intensity.

The interests of the producers having been completely sacrificed to those of the consumers; the results of such a policy are becoming painfully apparent, in the increasing number of the unemployed, consequent on _unlimited foreign competition_.

Working men who are unable to obtain employment can no longer be persuaded, either by the plausible statistics of Mr. Giffen, or by the peevish denunciations of Mr. Bright, that, thanks to Free Trade, they are better off than they were ever before.

Cheap food is of little avail if the means of purchasing it be not forthcoming.

The cry for _fair_ trade is waxing stronger and stronger.

I have endeavoured to show that a light tax on foreign wheat, would, without any appreciable increase in the cost of food, probably enrich England and its dependencies to the extent of about £60,000,000 annually; whilst at present a large portion of this is employed in furnishing the sinews of war which will probably be used against us.

G. L. M.

_March 30th, 1885._

INDEX.

PAGE CHAP. I.--To the Votaries of Jugernāth 1 II.--The Blasphemer 2 III.--What is Jugernāth? 4 IV.--A few ugly Facts 6 V.--Axioms for Jugernāthians 9 VI.--Political Economy 12 VII.--Political Extravagance 17 VIII.--False Prophets of Jugernāth 21 IX.--Isolation of Jugernāth 24 X.--Treachery in the Camp 29 XI.--Quem Jupiter vult perdere prius dementat 33 XII.--The wages of Jugernāth 35 XIII.--Pauperism, Crime, and Intemperance 37 XIV.--Jugernāth afloat 41 XV.--Adverse Prosperity 43 XVI.--Sacred Rights of Property 47 XVII.--Selections from Jugernāth’s Sacred Writings 51 XVIII.--The Vampire 54 XIX.--Odimus quos læsimus 59 XX.--Prosperous Adversity 63 XXI.--Ireland under the wheels 64 XXII.--The Finishing Stroke 68 XXIII.--Little Greatness 71 XXIV.--Blunder and Plunder 73 XXV.--Dear Cheap Food 77 XXVI.--The Pagoda tree 81 XXVII.--I know a Maiden fair to see 85

APPENDIX I.--Discourtesy _versus_ Argument 89 ” II.--Unheeded Warning 96

THE BRITISH JUGERNATH.