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initiated either by enthusiasts with no adequate 

 knowledge or purely as commercial transactions, 

 where the interests of the cultivator were not 

 studied. The Salvation Army cannot be put in 

 either category : the undertaking has been well 

 and wisely considered by competent and practical 

 men ; the land has been acquired at a reasonable 

 figure, and the subsequent expenses in adaptation 

 have been at a minimum ; the men are being put 

 on under every possible condition conducive to 

 success. Before entirely condemning artificial 

 experiments of the colony type, it would therefore 

 be well to wait for the lessons that this undertaking 

 will have to teach us. If it should prove that this 

 particular way of dealing with the small-holdings 

 question is a sound one, the Army will have done 

 a great work. 



'LAND FOR THE PEOPLE, LIMITED.' 



I am glad, however, to learn that the Army does 

 not intend to confine its endeavours in the estab- 

 lishment of people on the land to the formation of 

 experimental colonies. They have decided to use 

 the splendid opportunities which arise from their 

 vast organization to further a wider extension of a 

 small-holdings system on what seems more natural 

 lines. They have recently registered a company 

 with nominal capital under the title of the ' Land 

 for the People, Limited.' Its main object will be 

 to seek for land where the demand for it amongst 

 local men exists, and acquire estates to relet accord- 



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