240 THE MURDER OF AGRICULTURE 

 Gain to the good will and support of those whom they had brought 



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into existence. The offspring is, as a rule, loyal to the 

 parent, and your host of new agricultural electors would 

 naturally be loyal to those who gave them birth, particu- 

 larly so if, in their wisdom. Government would but lead 

 them by the hand and give them, while in their infancy, 

 just that judicious amount of encouragement and sup- 

 port which is essential to all young life. 



We want to get the " best possible " result out of the 

 land — for the people,the tax-payers and the Government ; 

 and, above all, we want to absolutely guarantee the main- 

 tenance of law and order and the building up of that 

 abiding, general prosperity which we know full well can 

 only come out of the creation of widespread industries, 

 wherefrom the people may find full and profitable em- 

 ployment and — PEACE. 



Create your army of agricultural voters ; train them to 

 habits of thrift and industry; encourage them by wise 

 measures of help ; give them every facility for the transit 

 of agricultural produce throughout the country; bring 

 them into direct touch with the consumer by the estab- 

 lishment of a multitude of municipal markets all over 

 the kingdom, and you will have done that which will 

 assuredly bring about conditions of prosperity. 



If you create a prosperous agriculturist, you give him 

 a solid stake in the country, and once you do this you 

 invest him with those attributes which make for law and 

 order, and which are openly hostile to revolution and 

 chaos. 



Armed and equipped with the necessary weapons of 

 offence and defence, your new army of agricultural 



