Politics and the Land 



dustry of the country with a view to securing 

 the above objects. 



The amendment of the Small Holdings Act 

 with a view to compensation being paid to 

 dispossessed occupiers out of the Small Hold- 

 ings Fund." 



This scheme embodies all the main principles 

 which have led to the successful development of 

 land in Denmark; it is only to be regretted 

 that it makes no reference to fiscal reform, but 

 the committee were placed in a difficult posi- 

 tion, in that many members of the association 

 are still Free Traders. Still, no agricultural 

 programme can be really complete that does 

 not include Tariff Reform, or rather, that is not 

 based upon Tariff Reform, as well as upon 

 education and co-operation. It seems strange 

 that land is not one of the chief concerns of the 

 Unionist party, and I am sure that most agricul- 

 turists would gladly see that party adopt a 

 comprehensive policy of land reform. 



There is no doubt that the Unionist party 

 could bring in sounder land reform than the 

 Liberal party. Liberal land reform must be 

 tainted with the doctrine of nationalisation ; 

 further, all the cranks and doctrinaires of the 

 party would endeavour to have a finger in the 

 land pie. 



Had the Unionists been developing an effec- 

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