Theoretically Free Trade should--I admit it--make us the most prosperous nation in the world.

As a matter of fact, never since this country commenced to make history has our commercial supremacy been in so rotten and insecure a position.
There isn't a flourishing industry in the country, save those which provide the munitions of war, and their prosperity is a spasmodic, and I might almost add, an undesirable thing.

Now, I am dealing with facts to-night, not theories, and I am going to quote certain unassailable truths, and I am going to give you the immediate causes for them.

The furniture and joinery trade of England is bad.

There are thousands of good hands out of employment.