Duty of the Government 



development of agriculture. In this country 

 the Government has often worked against 

 the landowner, and perhaps this is why- 

 landowners have never come forward and 

 offered to be the voluntary agents for 

 carrying out a land policy. Owing to the 

 teachings of a certain section of politicians 

 the attitude of the urban population has 

 become hostile in the first place to land- 

 owners, and hostile finally to really beneficial 

 land reforms, because it is ignorantly sup- 

 posed that the landowner would be the chief 

 beneficiary. Not only should feelings of 

 hostility be out of the question, but the great 

 commercial section of our community should 

 realize that no country ever has been or ever 

 can remain in a sound condition without a 

 flourishing agriculture ; that a flourishing 

 agriculture is necessary to permanently 

 secure their own interests in times of peace 

 and still more so in times of war. A house 

 divided against itself cannot stand. Certainly 

 this attitude of hostility makes sound and 

 wise development almost impossible, and yet 

 this attitude is due to want of understanding 

 of what land means to the nation, and of the 



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