24 OTHER ECONOMIC FACTORS 



they alone can do them on an adequate scale would be 

 incalculable ; and it may be pointed out incidentally that 

 landowners will largely increase their rent rolls by such intel- 

 ligent development. Obviously this is a perfectly justifiable 

 enlistment of self-interest, which will be an important factor 

 in securing the economic development of the country. 



It is a most important principle that the tenancy system 

 should be such as to provide due incentive to make an im- 

 provement for the person most capable of initiating it. The 

 tenant, short of capital and with scattered fields, can never 

 do anything appreciable : the landlords must somehow be 

 induced to take the initiative. 



It must not be thought that I recommend a tenancy 

 policy which merely aims at increasing the profits of landlords 

 to the maximum. Quite the reverse. I want them as a 

 class to work for their living. I am convinced that it will 

 be in the country's interest to go through a stage of the 

 development of argiculture by landlords ; and means must be 

 found to achieve this. My ideal is the paternal landlord, 

 studiously organizing his estate, benevolent to his tenantry 

 and occupying a central position in the social life of the 

 country-side. 



