Land Problems and National Welfare 



must be provided for the housing of the town 

 populations, either by the taxation of land 

 values in some form, or by giving municipal 

 authorities compulsory powers to acquire the 

 needed land at a reasonable cost. 



The question of poor law reform is very 

 much to the fore ; further reform is undoubtedly 

 needed in our licensing system. 



The whole method of handling milk is most 

 unsatisfactory and the supply altogether in- 

 adequate. 



I am only mentioning in a cursory way such 

 evils in need of reform as present themselves 

 to my mind; each must be judged on its own 

 merits, and in nearly every case it will be found 

 that the land is connected with any sound 

 scheme of reform. The land should play an 

 important part in the solution of the questions 

 of unemployment and poor law reform. It can- 

 not be divorced from the housing of the poor. 

 One would think that it could scarcely be dis- 

 sociated from the question of defence, yet so 

 clever a writer as Mr. Blatchford makes no 

 reference to land, or in other words to food 

 supply, in his study of the question of defence 

 against a possible invader. 



Land, or rather easy access to land, closely 

 affects the rate of wages throughout the country. 

 The land plays a most important part in the 

 physical well-being of the nation, and yet no body 



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