Mr. C. S. Read addressed the Farmers' Club in Salisbury .
Square on Monday, on the condition of the agricultural labourer, whom he thought better off than the town workman. lie had fresh air, a cheap house, and a garden which " ought" to produce. £4 a year, and the farmers might give him some skim milk. His wages were rising, and if they rose much more arable would have to be turned into pasture, whatever Mr. Medd might say,—quite a real danger. The outlay on wages was already 35s. an acre, or about as much as an average rent. On one point Mr. Read was, as- might be expected, emphatically Liberal. He considered ground game a nuisance which made cultivation impossible, and is evi- dently quite prepared to regard hares and rabbits as vermin, and improve them off the face of the earth, to the delight of Tory tenants and the horror of Tory landlords.
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