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2. That this being so, there is scope for the enormous 

 expansion of our agricultural industry and for the em- 

 ployment of vast numbers of people. 



Having, by this brief statement of facts and figures, 

 shown that, if in carrying out measures of land reform, 

 it is necessary to displace a few farm hands here and 

 there, employment for all of them, and indeed for 

 millions more of our country men and women will be 

 found on the land as the scheme develops, the question 

 might well be asked — Why all this fuss about nothing ? 



It must be obvious to any unprejudiced person that in The 

 the land lies the people's hope, the people's opportunity. Hope^ * 

 In the land Hes freedom from poverty, employment, 

 prosperity and wealth ; the people's redemption ; and yet 

 at the first attempt on the part of Government, for the 

 time being, to help along our unfortunate countrymen to 

 this goal we find a hostile Press, solely and wholly for 

 political purposes, ready to stir up the people against the 

 development of the land industry. 



Now, in discussing this matter among ourselves, just 

 in a friendly manner, we might naturally ask the follow- 

 ing questions. 



Why is there a hostile Press and a hostile Party? Why 

 is hostility shown, practically to every measure, good, 

 bad, or indifferent, which the Government of the day, 

 whether Conservative or Liberal, may bring forward? 



W^hy is administrative work retarded, and State busi- 

 ness frequently stopped by the hostility of a pohtical 

 Party backed up by a hostile Press? Why? 



The answer is clear. Because they have a purpose to 

 serve, or because they don't know and don't care that 



