THE NEW INDIA.
" Politloai xndia sinoe the reforms of 1920 might very well have foreed the authorities to adopt a progressive agrioultural policy, had it not been against its interests to do so. The attitude adopted was that the peasant must be eduoated before attempts were made to improve his position economioally. Free him from debt to-day and he will he equally involved to-morrow. That was the slogan, which practioally amounts to a refusal on the part of the politicians to face the problem of the oountryside. In point of fact they have used their power against the peasant's interests by building up high tariff walls for the beneflt of tbe industrialists, the result being to reduce the peasant's purchasing power and to eontract his overseas markets. Will the prospects brighten with provincial autonomy? Congress, which competent judges think will be the strongest party in the new legislature, promises laws against usury, mortgage banks and other benefits for the agriculturist.": — Sir William Barton, in the National Review.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 83, 24 April 1937, Page 4
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