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" If rural life was to be made what it ought to be there 

 should be no divorce between religion and labour. If 

 religion were made more practical there would be an end of 

 slavery, discontent and low morals." 



" If the labourer was asked what he wanted most he 

 would say a cottage he could not be turned out of." 



" I have no confidence in Parish Councils and still less in 

 County Councils. I am a member of a Parish Council and 

 they have done nothing except get a mid-day post." 



" My experience of Parish Councils is that the man who 

 speaks out often gets turned out of the village." 



" Labour representatives on Parish Councils ceased to be 

 effective because of victimisation." 



" If any Parish Council wants to get allotments they have 

 to pay double the rent the farmer paid before." 



" In Agriculture the wages of the workers should be the 

 first charge, farmers' profits the second, and the claim of the 

 landowner third. At present rent came first, farmers said 

 they must be second, and the worker got left." 



" My experience of landlords is that they hardly ever 

 visit their farms, except to see what sort of a partridge crop 

 there is, or to take the rent." 



" A man has to be born on the land to be successful in 

 farming." 



" I have been on the land over fifty years and I hope yet 

 to live to see decent cottages and many of them the property 

 of the cottagers and their pride, upon which they could 

 spend their energies of improvement and useful adaptation, 

 without those energies being in the end for the benefit of 

 the landlord." 



"The main difference between mining and Agriculture is 

 that of risk. The human needs of both classes of worker are 

 the same and their intellectual capacity and aspirations just 

 as high, so no distinction should be drawn between one 

 section of workers and another." 



" Farmers still continued their grumbling habits. I live 

 in hopes of seeing them move nearer Thanksgiving Street." 



" At elections we were told, which was true, that we were 

 wandering in the wilderness ; some pointed in one direction 



