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acres. The interest on these securities would 

 be amply met by the increment on land values 

 and the rent payable to the State by the 

 tenant. And further a systematic redemption 

 at par would, it is calculated, extinguish the 

 land bond altogether in sixty-seven years, 

 thus leaving the State not only with a con- 

 siderable and increasing balance to the good 

 each year, which could be used for the 

 reduction of existing taxes or other national 

 objects, but would hand over to our successors 

 the entire possession of then* country's land 

 to be used for their country's good. 



The overwhelming advantages of public 

 landownership may be summarized as follows. 

 Land would be accessible to all suitable appli- 

 cants apart from all question of the personal 

 favouritism of individual landlords. The 

 State would have no greater interest in the 

 political or religious views of its tenant-farmers 

 than in those of its policemen or postmen. 

 Full security of tenure would be enjoyed and 

 public opinion would soon demand not only 

 decent wages for our labourer but Fair Rent 

 Courts to determine that the farmer should 

 receive a reasonable and adequate return for 

 his outlay and industry. Public opinion 

 would further insist that the national land 

 should be put to the best purposes, and no 



