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its over-retfresentation in Par- 3. Earnings of Brilitih ships em-
liament, i. 278; ii. J 6. ployed in roreign trade, and
POputATtoN o( United Kingdom commissions earned bymerehanll
and others. or invisible uports
lost by emigration since f20, (about one hundred million £),
Ii. 23. . 4 17.
_e_ o( United. States and Aus- Suitabilit, o( the United Kingdom
tralasia. effects o( immigration as a place o( residence and lIS
an industrial centre considered,
on, ii. 349. . 42Q,
-- of United States, rapid in- Favourable climate, compactness
crease of, it 2I, 25. o( litualion, facility for equip-
. -- growth of, and the means ment o( machinery and buildin~;
advantages to home industnes
(or its subsistence, ii. 275. resulting from importation of raw
-- (male) of France, Germany materials, the United Kingdom
and United Kingdom over a country of free imports, and
the British Banking System, all
twenty, ii. 77. (avourahle to the country's con-
--- statistics, . difficulties o( in- tinued prosperity, 421-4%2.
ternational comparisons or, ii. Fallacies o( the present fiscal agita.
43· tion, 423.
PREFERENTIAL tariffs between The changes in our primary indus-
tries, such as agriculture and
United Kingdom and the Col- mining, are inevitable, and a re-
onies, objections to, ii. 394. sult of our economic de .. elo~
Present e(onom" (onditions and ment,426.
olilloo~ /0' llu United King- Manufacturing industries and
"dumping." Conclusion, 427-
dom [1904], ii. 405-430. 430.
Introductory remarks, 405.
Bulk of exchange or trade in a PRICES, changes in, and incomes
community is alway. among the compared, i. 156.
member. of that community, and - of commodities, fall or, in
their prosperi I, depends largely 1873'79. i. J21.
on their own industry, 405-406.
Primlll)' and secondlll}' industries, -- fall in, means a fall in wages
effects of, 407. at a later date, i. 151.
I. Amount and proportion to the -- fall or, since 1870, an ele-
whole industry o( the country,o( ment in diminished increase in
the 46,xt". things required, 408.
Exports of British and Irish pro- export values, i. 359.
duce, allowance to be made for -- periodical variations in, and
imp<?rted raw materials to which their inJluence on trade statis-
Bntish industry has been applied, tics, i. 298.
4OCJ.
Im~orts (or hQllle consumptioa con· -- rise in, and increased 5Up-
sldered in relation to the total ply of gold, i. 75.
income of the people, 410. -- o( sugar, clothing, etc.,
Income from our foreign invest· lower now than fifty years ago,
ments (about ninety million £), . but great rise in meat, i. 395.
and its relation to imports, 411.
2. Amount and natllfC of exports, PRIMARY and secondary indus-
4 13. tries, effects of, ii. 4°7.
T46U. Exports of British produce PROBATE and succession duties,
and manufactutes in 1902. less inequalities of, i. 260.
raw materials imported and con·
tained in the manufactures u' PROGRESS. England, recent rate
ported, 414. of mate~al, ii. 99.
II. GG