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keep out foreign foods is the expedient generally advocated, and though town Protectionists have learnt the lesson of the 1906 and 1910 elections, and avoid committing themselves to any sort of food tax, the landed interests are not easily shaken from their fixed policy. Though the programme of the London Chamber of Commerce allows most foods to come in free, no political Protectionism, having regard to considerations of Imperial union, would be likely to endorse this liberty. This simple claim of the farmer is likely to remain a millstone on the neck of the New Protectionism.

It would, of course, be possible to deal with the agricultural claims by way of bounties instead of tariffs. Sir L. Chiozza Money has recently revived this proposal, urging that a bounty upon agricultural produce should be applied to stimulate and organize our home supplies. Imported foods might enter free of duty as before, but a bounty on home-grown foods would