Chapter I: Preface: To the Second Edition

The following squib was written in 1883, with the intention of drawing attention to the serious danger into which we are rapidly drifting, through the suicidal policy of our rulers.

Since it was written the evils indicated therein have greatly increased in intensity.

The interests of the producers having been completely sacrificed to those of the consumers; the results of such a policy are becoming painfully apparent, in the increasing number of the unemployed, consequent on _unlimited foreign competition_.

Working men who are unable to obtain employment can no longer be persuaded, either by the plausible statistics of Mr. Giffen, or by the peevish denunciations of Mr. Bright, that, thanks to Free Trade, they are better off than they were ever before.

Cheap food is of little avail if the means of purchasing it be not forthcoming.

The cry for _fair_ trade is waxing stronger and stronger.

I have endeavoured to show that a light tax on foreign wheat, would, without any appreciable increase in the cost of food, probably enrich England and its dependencies to the extent of about £60,000,000 annually; whilst at present a large portion of this is employed in furnishing the sinews of war which will probably be used against us.

G. L. M.

_March 30th, 1885._

INDEX.

PAGE
CHAP. I.--To the Votaries of Jugernāth 1
II.--The Blasphemer 2
III.--What is Jugernāth? 4
IV.--A few ugly Facts 6
V.--Axioms for Jugernāthians 9
VI.--Political Economy 12
VII.--Political Extravagance 17
VIII.--False Prophets of Jugernāth 21
IX.--Isolation of Jugernāth 24
X.--Treachery in the Camp 29
XI.--Quem Jupiter vult perdere prius dementat 33
XII.--The wages of Jugernāth 35
XIII.--Pauperism, Crime, and Intemperance 37
XIV.--Jugernāth afloat 41
XV.--Adverse Prosperity 43
XVI.--Sacred Rights of Property 47
XVII.--Selections from Jugernāth’s Sacred Writings 51
XVIII.--The Vampire 54
XIX.--Odimus quos læsimus 59
XX.--Prosperous Adversity 63
XXI.--Ireland under the wheels 64
XXII.--The Finishing Stroke 68
XXIII.--Little Greatness 71
XXIV.--Blunder and Plunder 73
XXV.--Dear Cheap Food 77
XXVI.--The Pagoda tree 81
XXVII.--I know a Maiden fair to see 85

APPENDIX I.--Discourtesy _versus_ Argument 89
” II.--Unheeded Warning 96

THE BRITISH JUGERNATH.