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Farmers and Friends Rally Over Agricultural Distress
A series of county and town meetings across Oxford Wiltshire Essex Middlesex Warwick Exeter and Glamorgan debate responses to agricultural distress. Farmers urge rent relief and repeal of malt tax with calls for moderate protection while landlords resist drastic changes and advocate private settlements. In Exeter Sir Thomas D. Acland questions fast shifting policy as meetings confront farming versus free trade tides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gillet
Oxford
Lord Sherborne
Roberts
Wilts
Devizes
Mr. Williams
Shorestes
Essex
Middlesex
Uxbridge
Sussex County
Lewes
Brentford
House of Commons
Warwick
Baldwin
John Scott
Exeter
Music
George Turner
Barton
May
Fulford
Dr. Brent
T. D. Acland
M.P
Baronet
Thomas
R. Lopes
Bridgend