THE LAND QUESTION.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13479, 26 July 1912, Page 5

THE LAND QUESTION.

MR LLOYD GEORGE'S EVANGEL

LIBERALS AND LAND TAXATION

London, July 24

"Tho Times'' compares the situation of the Liberals with that of the Unionists in 1903, when Mr Chamberlain resigned in. order to make- a campaign through the country with Mr Balfour's sanction. The question is whether Mr Lloyd George will resign in order to try to win the election on a land policy.

Mr Lloyd George, in a letter to Mr Murphy, Liberal candidate for Crewe, expresses the hop© that the election will encourage the Government to further the task of freeing the land from a system of bondage, monopoly, and privilege. Sir Charles Henry, M.P., (Liberal) j speaking at Wellington, Shropshire, said that'he regarded land taxation as propounded by a certain group of Liberals as fantastic and unlikely to receive N tho support of the majority.

Mr'J. A. Dawes, Liberal member for Walworth, introduced a Bill in tho House of Commons providing heavy penalties for money-lenders lending to employed persons without the knowledge of their employers, and for circularising or writing to people when not solicited.