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THE BRITISH JUGERNATH.
FREE TRADE! FAIR TRADE!! RECIPROCITY!!!
RETALIATION!!!!
A gruesome huge misshapen monster void of sight.--_Virgil._
BY
G. L. M.
LONDON:
E. & F. N. SPON, 125, STRAND.
1885.
_Price Sixpence._
LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.
Dedicated
TO
SIR EDWARD SULLIVAN, BART.,
IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF
THE MANY VALUABLE HINTS THE AUTHOR HAS DERIVED
FROM HIS
“BUBBLES.”
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.
CHAPTER I.
TO THE VOTARIES OF JUGERNATH.
My Idolatrous Compatriot! Were it not for the gravity of the
situation, it would be amusing to watch the self-complacent smile
of conscious superiority which you assume, when descanting on
the paternal character of our rule in suppressing such abuses as
those of Suttee and Jugernāth; unconscious at the same time that
the Jugernāth of the wretched Hindoo is dwarfed into complete
insignificance when compared with that huge idol which you yourself
have set up for worship.
My dear fellow! for goodness’ sake put away the microscope with
which you are so patiently investigating the mote in the eye of
your Aryan brother, and bear with me, whilst I attempt to extract
the huge log which obscures your own visual organs. And should
I (contrary to my expectation), succeed in removing so large a
mass, you will find that, whilst you have been depriving your
Aryan brethren of their comparatively innocent little plaything,
which at the most might have crushed some half dozen fanatics,
in the course of a year, you have reared up a horrible fantastic
creation which you worship, which in its progress is crushing its
thousands and even millions every year; which is stamping out the
lifeblood of England and its dependencies; whilst all the time
you are applauding it, sounding your political tom-toms, blowing
your trumpets to shouts of wah! wah! complacently misapplying glib
quotations from your sacred Vedas (Adam Smith and Mill), flaunting
your banners of political economy while violating every principle
of that useful but misused science.