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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 58

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Preface	v
Chapter I.
Introduction	I
Chapter II. The Depression at Home.
Description—Economic Sketch, 1870-1884—Statistical Table:—Population, Exports Home Produce, Total Imports and Exports, Savings Banks, Crime, Pauperism—The Fall in Prices, its Causes—Comparison of Trade 1873 and 1884—Scarcity of Gold—The World's Indebtedness to Great Britain—Agriculture—Railway Traffic	2
Chapter III. The Depression Abroad.
France, Germany and Austria, Belgium, Italy, Russia, Holland, Switzerland, The United States	13
Chapter IV. Causes of Depression.
Not our Fiscal System—Production greater than ever, Distribution different—Producers and Capitalists the Sufferers—Consumers and Labourers the Gainers—An Economic Revolution arising from a Diffusion, and more equal Distribution, of Wealth—Among Wage Earners the Causes of Distress are Intemperance, Imp ovidence, and Bad Land Laws	23
Chapter V. Remedies.
Agriculture—Landlords, Farmers, Labourers—Manufactures—Capitalists, Workmen	31
Chapter VI.
Conclusion	40