At this moment, to-day, this year of our Lord 1877, the merchant princes of London, the manufacturing barons of Manchester are at their wits' ends; for people refuse to buy the products of their mills. Germany will not have them, and France will not, and America chooses to make her own; and even India, ungrateful that she is, has gone to spinning her own cotton. Mills are being closed in England, furnaces are blown out, wages are reduced, and workmen are threatening to _strike_, or have struck, and are settling down for a comfortable winter upon the _rates_. All right! England has "developed her resources," and trade is free. Let her sing hosannahs, and cry, "Glory be to our god," for no such beautiful "progress" was ever seen on earth before. What is to happen to the 300,000 or half million land-owners of England, if outside pig-headed peoples wilfully and maliciously refuse to buy the mill products of England and so to feed the 37,200,000 people of England who have no land upon which to raise their own food? What is to happen if some fine day the 37,200,000 take it into their foolish heads to say: "We do not like to starve. We are many, you are few. We will take the land and raise our own food, and you can emigrate if you like, or you can stand out in the cold as we have done. We don't like it." It is not quite easy to shoot those people; and if they choose to stay in England, it is not quite easy to _make_ them emigrate--not even if the "laws of trade" tell them they really ought to go. And besides, it is so easy for 100,000 paupers to emigrate--to take their wives and their children, their flocks and their herds, their camels and their asses, their beds and their tents, and go forth to seek the promised land--the land flowing with milk and honey. It is so simple, so pleasant, that one is lost in amazement that they do not go--that they wickedly persist in staying where they are paupers, and refuse to obey the law of "supply and demand." Such conduct is quite unworthy of enlightened Britons who "never will be slaves." It is too bad--it really is--and political economy ought to be preached at them severely. Why is it too that outside barbarians refuse to buy the divine productions of England? Some think we may do well to take a look at this part of the problem before _we_ go on with our plans for introducing more cheap labor into our own happy land.