BRITISH LAND TENURE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1796, 8 July 1913, Page 5

BRITISH LAND TENURE.

TWO POINTS OF VIEW. By Telegraph-Press Association—Copyrieht London, July 6. ■ Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of tlie Exchequer, speaking at Dulwich, said that tho Marquis of Lausdowne'g recentlyenunciated proposal that the State should advance tho purchase money required for land settlement purposes at a low rate of interest to enable a tenant farmer to buy what the laudlord merely chose to sell, moant a high price, because there was no compulsion to sell. Adoption of anything like the Irish land scheme throughout the United Kingdom would smash the country's credit and imply a loss to tho taxpayers of three hundred millions of solid money. England, added Mr. LloydGeorge, was utterly unsuited for peasant proprietorship. There was an alternative purchaser to tho peasant, and lie hoped that before finally deciding the question of purchase statesmen would careMly consider the question of reversion to the State. But the first task was to recast the whole of the conditions of the tenure of land, and put them on a better business footing.