Politics and the Land 



present conditions — vote for a Liberal candidate, 

 many would not vote at all, but practically 

 every one of them, as well as those who have 

 never been tied to either Party, will give their 

 support to agricultural candidates. Moreover, 

 there will be many opportunities for agricultural 

 votes to be given to candidates who, though 

 standing as agricultural candidates, and free of 

 the Party Whips on agricultural questions, will 

 show a decided bias to either the Liberal or the 

 Unionist side. One proposal is that agricul- 

 turists should select their own candidates, but 

 that in a division where the preponderating 

 vote is Liberal a candidate acceptable to the 

 Liberals should be chosen, and conversely in 

 the case of a Conservative constituency. 



This is another point upon which it is use- 

 less for us or our opponents to dogmatise : it 

 remains to be proved, and until it is proved 

 that we are wrong it is unreasonable to say that 

 it is impossible. 



The formation of this Independent Party 

 may be impracticable, but we shall require more 

 conclusive arguments than any yet put forv/ard 

 to convince us that it is so. 



IT IS UNDESIRABLE 



The force of this opinion depends almost 

 entirely upon the point of view of the person 

 making it. I say " almost " because our oppo- 



