THE LAND PROBLEM
(CHANCELLOR'S CAMPAIGN,
Pitts Ajioclttimi' -By Telegraph—Copyiijht.
LONDON, December 23. (Received Dee. 24, at 0.5 a.m.) In a speech at Pwllheli Mr Lloyd George repudiated the idea that the land programme was merely a vote-catching device. He said that for every 20s paid by the farmer in wages he paid over 25s as rent. He wanted fair play for all, but the- landlord "was no more essential to agriculture than a chain was to a watch, and the Government's plan was to place the parasitic interest last. The Tory alternative was to use the taxpayers' money for the landlords to build cottages and keep the tenants under their thumbs. Referring to emigration, he said the life blood of the country dis tricts was being gradually drained and poured into the veins of new lands overseas, where the labourers were better treated.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15955, 24 December 1913, Page 5
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