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In modern times prosperity is not won by those 

 nations which possess the largest territory, or the great- 

 est latent resources, but by those which are the best 

 equipped, best organised and best directed. 



Hence the State which follows a policy of laissez- 

 faire, which entrusts the guidance of its Agricultural 

 policy to doctrinaries or party politicians, which deli- 

 berately discards the idea of utilising commercial enter- 

 prise because backed financially by other folk, rejects, 

 the real co-operation of labour and capital and will find 

 itself at a great disadvantage in competing with or- 

 ganised nations directed by experts. 



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MODERN IDEAS OF GOVERNMENT. 



"We have before our eyes the possibilities of mo- 

 dern thought as exemplified in tendencies of State con- 

 trol. 



The struggle now proceeding al over the world for 

 the control of the office of Government is based on one 

 primary principle, common to all countries and all par- 

 ties, that is that the most competent man shall fill the 

 post, that the appointments of Ministers and directing 

 functionaries shall not be synonymous with personal or 

 political influences ; they shall be chosen from among 

 the best and most competent citizens. 



In this country there is no valid reason why the 

 citizen who is the chosen confidential adviser of the Pre- 

 sident, should be temporary chief of a great administra- 

 tive department. Administration is one thing, polities 

 is another. 



If the person elected to fill the post of administra- 

 tor of the chief sources of wealth is competent, then he 

 certainly should be allowed to remain there whatever 

 change of Government takes place. 



Against this shuffling of posts, this appointing of 

 persons without proper competence for the posts ther 

 are elected to fill, the greatest and most continuous out- 

 ery has been raised, for its disadvantages have been loiig 

 recognised. The United States, which places all respon- 

 sibility in the hands of the President and allows him na 

 responsibility other than his own, has attained remark- 

 able prosperity through the wise adoption of the plan 

 of the right man in the right place- 



THE NEED OP A NEW POLICY IN 

 AGRICULTURE BY THE STATE- 



The continuous changes in the appointments of our 



