STATE LANDLORDISM.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4164, 26 November 1884, Page 3

STATE LANDLORDISM.

[To 'litis Editor of the Daily Telegraph.] Sir,—ln your yesterday's issue you «aid as an objection to tho nationalization of tho larfd. that "thero was never a more unscrupulous landlord than the State," and that " the nationalisation of tho land might prove a leap from the frying-pan into the fire." This looks to me as an attempt to throw dust into the people's eyes. Unscrupulousness is not a thing to be afraid of, , if justice accompanies it. The injustice of private ownership in land, and the evil that , follows it, are tho grounds on which its , nationalisation is claimed. Paying rent to tho State is different to paying rent to private individuals. Rent paid to the latter for the use of the land is virtually so much thrown away. It is all unproductive!}' ' squandered. Rent paid to the State goes to save other taxes, and to como back to , the people in the shape of improvements. Thus tho " unemployed " problem is solved ; money wasted in land speculation is put into use, and the game is a thing of the, past. Does ~V look like a leap from the frying-pp . the fire? Suggesting the emig- in JJ the Highlanders to New Zeal- - 3 Q , drawing attention from tho r * & depriving these people of mtive n< But arc the times not hp jd herfl tQQ , m ye not have all the b' jst lfmd inHawkc ' a Bay monopolised by a , aT)d tho mnsscß Buffering thereby? Abont fivo wooks the Telegraph Snowed plainly the deplorable condition _ 0 f VnQ ' Wfl h(jai . of depression fro-m every smarter of tho globe, or enforced idleness, extreme poverty. This calls on overy man to see if thorp can be no remedy, ant? to oxa mine for himself such works as « rogress . and Poverty."I am, &c, ° T. 0. _J^^ e \ Y25 1384.