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away, nor are we going to derive any direct benefit 

 from them. We are going to convert land, now 

 valueless, into land which will directly and indirectly 

 enrich alike landholder and cultivators ; we, in fact, 

 only re-assume control over certain lands (in which, 

 be it remembered, we are partners) because their util- 

 isation in the manner demanded by our interests, the 

 landholders' interests, and the interests of the entire 

 nation, requires an organisation and intelligence that 

 our managing partners cannot command and do not 

 possess. 



Looking to all that depends upon the measure, 

 looking to the impossibility of carrying it out with- 

 out State interference, I do not think that the most 

 ardent advocate for non-interference with private 

 rights would deny that here was a case in which it 

 was not only justifiable, but incumbent, on the State 

 to interfere. 



I do not go further into details ; every one's ideas 

 on such a subject must be crude until we actually 

 begin to carry out the work in practice. It is to 

 elaborate the practical details of procedure here as 

 in other matters that we require a special organisa- 

 tion. 



The land available, it will be necessary to surround 

 it with a good stout mud^ fence, such as the people 

 now construct around any grove they plant, and the 

 ground inside must be more or less ploughed or 

 broken up, and if the soil be such as to warrant the 

 planting of fruit-trees, such as mangoes, some sort of 

 a well may have to be dug. 



I do not hesitate to say that all this the villagers 



