FARMERS' FRIENDS.
MR. WORTLEY'S supporters in Yorkshire call themselves " the Farmers' Friends; awl the Standard, premising that, " thanks to the Reform Bill, three-fourths of the English representation is in the hands of the enemies of the English farmer," holds forth in this fashion " 'shoe is no hope of restoring apiculture to a state of prosperity—no hope of averting even its deterioration but in a recurrence to those principles by which the country formerly prospered, and in a restoration of that asce a
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of the Conservative boded interest by which those principles were applied."
Now, we say to the Tories, suppose every Member of both Houses cl Parliament were of your politics,—suppose you were omnipo tent in the Legislature and in the country,—w hat would you do for the farmer? Point out to us one efficient measure of relief which you would undertake to carry. Let the Yorkshire farmers question Mr. WORTLEY on this point : ask him plainly what be would do for them were he in power; force hint to abandon or make good his claim to the appellation of " Farmer's Friend." They will find that this profession of exclusive regard for the agricultural interest is only part and parcel of the system of jugglery and falsehood by which it is sought to delude the ignorant and credulous.. As we expect no satisfactory answer from Mr. WORTLEY, perhaps the Standard will oblige us with one : will Our contemporary state, in plain and direct terms, what he would do for the farmer ?
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