136 THE STATE AS FARMER 



been reached often, — I am not referring to 

 Ireland, — in cases where the land from which 

 revenue was drawn to support valuable seats 

 became insufficient for the purpose. In fact 

 it has always been impossible so to tie up 

 property that the owner of an historic mansion 

 should have enough to live upon in it, although 

 certain methods of getting the better of the 

 moneylender have been devised. But when 

 the State resumes possession the ordinary 

 requirements of society for paying one's 

 way will be demanded, and the result will be 

 that a noble name in a noble house, genera- 

 tion after generation, will stand for much more 

 than it does at present. It will mean finan- 

 cial rectitude equivalent to thrift in lower 

 stations, and it may come to mean families 

 whose tradition is useful service to the State 

 and on the land. 



We have all come across cases in the farmer 

 class where residence on the same land is 

 claimed from the time before the Conqueror. 

 Combined with age of occupancy is often seen 

 a capacity for producing rancid butter and 

 such products that are of no practical value 

 to the State. These citizens will be removed 



