Politics and the Land 



It is said to be impossible : — (i) Because no 

 Member, or group of Members of Parliament 

 would fairly represent the landlord, the tenant, 

 and the labourer. (2) Because the expense in- 

 curred would prove a burden too great for 

 Agriculture to bear. (3) Because there is no 

 unanimity between the units of any one of the 

 three classes embraced under the term " Agri- 

 culturists." (4) Because the labourers will never 

 vote the same way as their employers. (5) 

 Because Party political feelings are too deeply 

 rooted in the minds of Agriculturists to allow 

 them to transfer their allegiance to an In- 

 dependent candidate. There are others of less 

 importance, but these will suffice. It will be 

 found on analysis that some of these are 

 mutually destructive of each other. 



NO. I. 



If it is impossible for a Member fairly to 

 represent the landlord, tenant, and labourer, 

 how is it possible for a Member fairly to re- 

 present not only those three sections, but the 

 hundred-and-one other sections and interests 

 he affects to represent under present conditions? 

 No one imagines because an individual tries to 

 directly represent that industry which happens 

 to be the principal one in his division that a 

 perfect method of representation has been 

 found. But (on the theory of the greatest good 



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