214 RURAL DENMARK 



Oddly enough, as I write, a cartoon issued by the 

 National Union of Conservative Associations and 

 published as a special supplement of the Primrose 

 League Gazette has been put into my hand, which 

 seems to endorse this suggestion. Above and under 

 it are printed respectively "The Two Land Policies," 

 "Which will you have?" The drawing itself repre- 

 sents, to the left, a comfortable-looking agriculturist 

 with a smile on his face and a pipe in his mouth 

 standing by an excellent wooden fence, and resting 

 on the ground in front of him a large sack labelled 

 "Profit from my own Land." To the right appears 

 a thin and miserable creature with no pipe, no smile, 

 tattered trousers, and boots through which his toes 

 are showing, staggering past a wooden fence which 

 is in the last stage of decadence, and bearing on his 

 back a gigantic sack labelled " Perpetual Payments to 

 Government." 



The question to be discussed is whether this pic- 

 torial allegory does or does not actually represent the 

 facts of the case. One thing is clear. When the 

 Unionist Government returns to power, which probably 

 it will do either at once or later on (I write just before 

 the General Election), it will be called upon to fulfil 

 its promises as to State-aided land-purchase. It was 

 this knowledge that determined me to make an effort 

 to visit Denmark, as I had so long hoped to do, and 

 there find out the exact truth as to the working of the 



ponement of the Unionist land policy, at any rate so far as the putting 

 of it into force is concerned. Still it would be most interesting to a 

 great number of persons if the leaders of the Opposition would explain 

 in detail exactly what that policy is, and how they will carry it out when 

 next they come to power. Do they, for instance, propose to adopt the 

 provisions of Mr. Jesse Collings's Land Bill of 1910, only on a larger 

 scale? H. R. H. 



