LAND REFORM

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 9, 10 July 1912, Page 7

LAND REFORM

GOVERNMENT NOT PLEDGED TO SINGLE-TAX. LLOYD GEORGE'S PICTURESQUE STATEMENT. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. LONDON, 9th July. In the House of Commons, yesterday Mr. Asquith, Prime Minister, in reply to questions, said Mr. Lloyd George, withi his approval, had informed an unofficial committee (Mr. A. H. D. Acland (chairman), and Messrs. E. G. Hemmerdo, B. Seebohm, Rowntree, and Barop De Forest.) to investigate the question of land reform. Tho Government would be rasponsiblfe for any ultimate proposals. In answer to Mr. G. N. Barnes (Labour — Blackfriars, Glasgow), Mr. Asquith. eaid the Government was not pledged to the Single-tax. Sir Randolf Baker (Unionist — North. Dorset) asked why tho by-elections were fought on the Single-tax issue uule&> it was the Government's policy. Mr. Asquith replied: "That does not rest frith me." " Mr. Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at Woodford, said his views on the land question were shared by his colleagues. It was perhaps picturesque to say the land was shackled in the chains of feudalism, but it Avas not inaccurate. [The Chancellor, in the course of an address at Woodford last week on the benefits to be derived from the operations of the National Insurance Act, said: — "We boast of the largest Navy in the world, the greatest commercial trade on land and sea, the greatest mercantile marine, and the greatest Empire. When shall we think it worth -while boasting of an Empire composed of the happiest people, free from poverty and from the terrors of children crying for bread! In front of you is the biggest task the demo, cracy of Great Britain has ever undertaken. We have got to free a land now shackled with the chains of feudalism, free it from that which is a ttuame ana. a. disgrace to the richest country in tho wprkl. The Insurance Act ia t&> beginning. With God's help, it is but the beginning.]

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