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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 59, 3 December 1919, Page 10

STKATGTTT TALK TOT? ELECTORS. ! LAND AND SETTLEMENT. = Five years ago Mr. Massey publicly ■ declared that the chief plank "in his platform" was "lo help flic man on tho land." Quite so! He has always helped "the man on tho land"—especially tho biff man who is very much "op the land" -but ho lias done very little to put, anyone else tliore. At present the national policy of settling discharged soldiers on ilio land is being used to , benefit llio landowners who are being paid excessively high prices. The prices are high becauso tho Government hits done nothing to tho holding of liuid for speculative purposes, and 'because its own purchases are stiffening the market against itself, and because it: will not take land compulsorily at a valuation based on tax assessment us provided V ■ the law placed on' the Statute Book It the Liberals. When food prices drop, : i3 they inevitably will, the soldier settlers will be unable to pav interest, and eit'ier they must, be evicted or the Stale, which means you and I, must pay the deficit. The Liberal policy of land settlement is to force the largo estates on to the market by increasing the graduated 'tax, protecting the settlers against hardship laud the State against financial loss, [ Which way will you vote?—Advt, ,