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CHAPTER XXI 



Land Reform and Tariff Reform — Necessity for 

 Popular Action 



THE subject we are dealing with is so vast that it is 

 impossible in this work to do more than merely 

 glance at a few of its more salient features, and much 

 that is useful and important must necessarily be left un- 

 said. But before concluding we would refer to one or two 

 other points, which should not be lost sight of in our 

 consideration of this question. 



There is a large section of the community which al- 

 ways finds difficulty in making up its mind on any ques- 

 tion of the day, because it is so easily led this way or 

 that ; it shapes its course by what the last speaker hap- 

 pens to have said ; and startling newspaper head-lines of 

 the sensational order prove irresistibly attractive. People 

 of this description might well be treated as a qiiaufite 

 negltgenble, were it not for the fact that they form too 

 large and important a body to neglect, and it is therefore 

 necessary to warn them of what will surely happen. 



Two questions that vitally affect all Englishmen are 

 now before the public; the land question and 

 tariff reform; and many a man, who has hitherto 

 thought but little on either subject, must now make up 

 his mind one way or the other. We are, indeed, at " the 

 Parting of the Ways "; let us beware lest we take the 

 wrong path. 



