Politics and the Land 



of politicians has a land policy. 



As I have already said, the Unionists have 

 taken up the question of peasant proprietorship, 

 and the Radicals of small holding tenancies, 

 with the nationalisation of land as their final 

 objective; but neither party has put forward a 

 comprehensive policy, such, for instance, as 

 the one formulated by the Central Land Associa- 

 tion which I here give in full. 



CONSTRUCTIVE AGRICULTURAL 

 PROGRAMME 



ADOPTED AT A MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE 



OF THE CENTRAL LAND ASSOCIATION HELD ON 



24TH NOVEMBER, igOQ, 



Resolved : — That in the belief that the time 

 has now come for a Constructive Agricultural 

 Policy, the Central Land Association suggests 

 that immediate and active steps be taken to 

 secure the co-operation of all agricultural or- 

 ganisations and others interested in agriculture 

 in order to achieve the following programme : — 



The provision, in all rural elementary schools, 

 of education having a definite agricultural bias, 

 and the inclusion in the syllabus of such schools 

 of the principles of co-operation ; and the main- 

 tenance of continuation classes, winter schools, 

 farm schools, etc., forming a continuous system 



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