CHAPTER XXVI 



LAND TENURES (continued) — WHAT THE TEOPLE SHOULD 

 DO — SCHEME OF TENURES OUTLINED — A GREAT 

 AGRICULTURAL LOAN NEEDED 



From the two preceding cliapters several vitally important 

 questions stand out with remarkable lucidity, which for the 

 sake of convenience may be referred to categorically. 



1. Agriculture being the })rimal industry of the human 



family, it necessarily enters into and ramifies along 

 every vein and current of human life, and is insepar- 

 able therefrom. 



2. Agriculture being the greatest labour-employer and 



wealth-distributor of this, or any other country, and 

 the industrial sheet-anchor of the people of every 

 nation, the system on which the land is worked 

 becomes of paramount importance in the national 

 economy. 



3. Agriculture being charged with enormous and exceptional 



potentialities in respect to employment, food and live 

 stock production, and other sources of fruitfulness and 

 wealth, this great industry should be regarded as the 

 rightful inheritance of the nation and should not be 

 made the subject of class-interest, class-legislation, or 

 the sport of political parties. 



4. Agriculture in the United Kingdom, while being capable 



of employing as large a head of the population as 

 any country in Europe, employs on an average less 

 than half of that employed in other countries per 

 every 100 acres under cultivation ; while the number 

 of persons employed, supported and fed by agriculture 

 in this country is but 24 per cent, of the number 

 similarly })rovided for in Germany, France, and 

 Hungary. 



5. Agriculture having been sacrificed to maintain the 



SurPvEMACY OF British Manufacturers, national 



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