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It is a task such as no Govemmient in the world 

 ever attempted. 



If Government is to protect tenants in their own 

 bargains as to rents, there is an end of free-trade in 

 anything, and Protectionists have been right all the 

 time. 



Such things rest on no principle if free -trade 

 means anything. The object is to do away with 

 competition among tenants. Nowhere is competi- 

 tion so much wanted to enforce better farming on 

 tenants. 



Fixity of tenure leaves the tenant to go on as 

 badly as before ; and, besides, it does this by confis- 

 cating part of the landowners' reversion. 



