GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 



PROPOSAIvS FOR IvAND REFORI^I IN ENGI.AND AND WALEwS. 



Sources : 



The I,and. The Report of the lyand Enquiry Committee. Vol. i. Rural. Vol. 2. Urban. — 



I^ondon, 1913-14. Hodder and Stoughton. 

 The lyAND Problem. Notes Suggested by the Report of the I<and Enquiry Committee. — 



I,ondon, 191 3. Wyman and Sons. 

 A Unionist Agricultural Policy. By a Group of Unionists. — I<ondon, 1913. John 



Murray. 

 The I,abour Party .4lkd the agricultural Problem. — I<ondon, 191 3. The I,aboxxr 



Party. 

 Harben (Henry D.) : The Rural Problem. — lyondon, 1913. Constable. 

 Speeches by the Chancellor of the Exchequir (Mr. D. lyloyd George) at Bedford, October 



nth., 1913; at Swindon, October 22nd., 1913; at Holloway, November 29th., 1913: 



at Pwllheli, December 22nd., 1913, and at Glasgow, February 4th., 1914, and by the 



Prime Minister (Mr. H. H. Asquith) in I,ondon, December 9th., 191 3. 



For other publications relating to the I,and Question and the more important articles 

 which have been written on the subject, see the Bibliography at the end of the Section 

 "Miscellaneous" in the Bulletin of May, 1914. 



Introduction. 



Considering the very severe crisis through which agriculture has 

 passed in England in the last forty years, it is somewhat surprising that 

 so little change has been made in the EngUsh land laws. W^le in 

 Ireland, during the same period, the land system has been completely revol- 

 utionised, in England only slight modifications have been made with a 

 view to securing to the tenant comjjensatiou for improvements or for 

 disturbance or to relieving the agricultural interests from the pressure of 

 local taxation. It is only now, when the crisis is past and agriculture is 

 recovering from the depression, that the land system is being called in 

 question, and demands are arising on all sides for its fundamental amend- 

 ment. 



The reasons for this new and general interest in the land question 

 are manifold. In large part it is a phase of the greater interest which is 

 being taken in social questions; England being an industrial country, these 



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