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Slumkey and Horatio Fizkin, Esq. — resulted in nothing worse 

 than a tree fight between the edit(ms of the rival newspapers. 

 If modern electioneering campaigns resulted in nothing more 

 serious than this, the public would view the proceedings with 

 unruffled equanimity ; but, unfortunately, the harm done now- 

 adays by mean electioneering subterfuges and political trickery, 

 is as widespread as the ocean, and ramifies through the lives of 

 the people, causing endless disappointment, want, and misery. 

 The people believed in the " PAg " and " Cheap " loaf, and many 

 of them believe in it to-day, and yet it was but a political if^nis 

 fatuus, luring the unwary away from life's realities to their own 

 utter undoing. 



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What the Land can do for Us 



Looked at from the veritable standpoint of common-sense, 

 we can do anything we choose with our great inheritance — the 

 Land. 



We can repopulate our country districts and give back to 

 England that backbone of rural strength and vigour of which 

 the enervating, exhausting policy of the last half-century has 

 robbed her. We can sprinkle over our fair island from Corn- 

 wall to the Pentlands, from the Wash to St. David's Head, such 

 a multitude of happy, thriving homesteads that our land will 

 fairly hum with the joyous, invigorating sound of busy indus- 

 tries. We can send the people to honest work instead of to 

 the workhouses, and we can give them plenty iu the place of 

 poverty. 



We can employ literally millions of our people in making 

 our own butter and cheese, iu growing our own fruit and vege- 

 tables, in producing our own milk, poultry and bacon, in grow- 

 ing' our own corn and making our own flour. 



We can, in short, grow practically all our own food, and 

 usefully and honourably employ all our own people. We can 

 so well employ our own people in our own country that the 

 wasteful drain of emigration will cease for a considerable time, 

 and we shall keep the sturdy and the strong, those pushing, 

 vigorous, brave sons of the nation with us, instead of forcing 

 them to seek their bread in a strange land. 



But we must have done with political knavery and a con- 

 fiding, fond belief in the sincerity of political parties, because 

 it is now clear to even the weakest intelligence that the chica- 

 nery of politicians is as palpable as it is misleading, while the 

 experience of the past proves that whichever imHh may be in 

 ofiice, the peoples interests continue to remain — neglected. 



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