64 OUR ENGLISH LAND MUDDLE. 



enough ; or to abolish the " tyrannical landlord 

 class " — that class which in the past kept the 

 agricultural industry alive without thought of 

 profit, enabled to do so by devoting to the 

 subsidy of the land income drawn from other 

 sources. These are examples of a score of 

 " easy " remedies. 



The real remedy will be found not so simple. 

 Probably it will be found in its best form only 

 after a certain amount of empirical experiment. 

 British statesmen must be prepared to try 

 methods which may have to be afterwards 

 discarded or modified as the result of ex- 

 perience. They may get some valuable hints 

 from a study of the experience of Dominions 

 within our Empire and of foreign countries. 

 But that study must not be slavish, for it is a 

 mistake in dealing with land problems to attempt 

 to treat them as purely matters of economics, 

 of acres, yields, costs, and the like ; the study 

 must be in a measure political, and take into 

 account various sentimental factors. 



