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and representing all political parties. It was 

 set up to inquire into the position of tenant 

 farmers, in consequence of forced sales of 

 estates. It reported : — 



" Be the causes of sale what they may, 

 the evidence which the Committee have 

 heard proves that there exists great anxiety 

 among the tenant farmers, and that this 

 feeling of insecurity is militating against 

 agriculture. Witnesses before the Com- 

 mittee were practically unanimous in ex- 

 pressing the view that the tenants farming 

 on the large estates in England and Wales 

 desired nothing better than to remain as 

 tenants under their present landlords, and 

 in view of the remission of rent by landlords 

 in bad seasons, and the execution of repairs 

 and improvements over and above the 

 strictly agricultural requirements of the 

 farms, the position of tenants under good 

 landlords is apparently a satisfactory one." 

 There is no reason of " feudal tyranny " on 

 which to found a campaign to abolish the land- 

 lord in England. In a scheme of rural regenera- 

 tion some of the evils which are associated with 



