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of the times. That it has assumed an air of importance that 

 would be as ridiculous as a screaming farce, were it not fraught 

 with a danger so menacing as to threaten to overturn much of 

 the established order of things, there can be no question ; and 

 unless the people themselves recognise the true position of 

 affairs and supply the remedy by insisting, once for all, on — the 

 cultivation of the soil, no relief will be forthcoming. 



It is, then, the soil, the land, agriculture, that can relieve the 

 strain, and give to the people of this sorely misgoverned and 

 party-riddeu country, that stable and lucrative employment 

 which is more their right to have and to hold in perpetual 

 possession, than it is the right of those set in authority over 

 them to withhold it from them. The land is the chief source 

 of employment in every country in the world but ours, and the 

 cliief source of wealth-production ; and, what is better still — the 

 chief means of its even distrihiition. Unless the people insist 

 on agricultural conditions being set up here similar to those 

 which obtain in every State in Europe — conditions which ensure 

 universal and profitable employment, this Unemployed question, 

 which is a rank injustice to the masses, a sore burden to tax 

 and rate-payers, and a veritable curse to the country, will not, 

 and cannot, be relieved. 



Ugly Comparisons 



Here is a statement showing how carefully other countries 

 use their land as a means of employing and supporting the 

 people, and how recklessly and shamefully we neglect and abuse 

 it, and although tliis is but a reiteration of what has been said 

 on the subject in another chapter, the gravity of the situation 

 will excuse the repetition. 



Amid general misunderstandings and unnatural surround- 

 ings, then, this simple question is made to exist, and most 

 unnatural means are resorted to in regard to its treatment. 

 Nobody seems to recognise that employment is a simple result 



