The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 65
Notes
Notes.
"Where a people refuse to pay for railway carriage the necessary rate—that is, the rate which it really costs to carry the same—but are compelled to do so by taxation, the taxation of the rich, a wrong is manifestly committed. The morality of the deed is glaringly at fault, and its economical absurdity is as glaringly evident."
"Sixty per cent, of the people might be engaged in agriculture, twenty per cent, in manufactures, twenty per cent, in commerce. In case of a bad harvest other wealth might thus be found to exchange for corn purchased from countries more fortunate."
Page 205.—"7. The size of a farm," &c.
"This is perhaps the most powerful motor of any. The land was made for man, not man for the land."