Calendar: 1875-1876 Page 328

324 EVENING CLASSES Wages and prohibiting Combinations-Laws supplementing Wages by granting relief to Destitution IV The origin and defence of Trade-Unions or Combina- tions of Workmen for the purpose of obtaining better terms from Employers The place of the Agriculturist in the Economy of Society-The relations of Landowner Farmer and Labourer -The causes which affect the Rate of Agricultural Wages- The use of Machinery and other Economies in Agriculture VI Competition as an agency in the Distribution of Wealth-The extent to which custom corrects and controls it either naturally or artificially VII The industry of densely peopled countries as com- pared with that of new Settlements-The tendencies of Wealth in the former as compared with those in the latter state Emigration spontaneous and assisted VIII Co-operation or the combination of the functions of Capitalist and Labourer in the same person-Its develop- ment its prospects its limits-Its forms in England and Germany IX Schemes for the reconstruction of Society The origin progress and present position of such schemes- Communism-Socialism-The fundamental fallacy of these theories-Their apparent defence Laws respecting the settlement and devolution of Property-The effects of these Laws on the economy of Society and the Distribution of Wealth XL The Land Systems of the United Kingdom and other countries-Their effects on the Societies which have adopted and maintain them XII The effects of International Trade and the exchange pf the products of Home and Foreign Industry Tariff