THE FARMER' UNION AND LIMITATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 8 July 1907, Page 2

THE FARMER' UNION AND LIMITATION.

| jit was to hi; expected Unit ;i sensibly

body of men the Farmers' Union ill session in Wellington last week should object to the aggregation oi' estates in New Zealand and show an undivided unanimity over those clause* in the Land iJill which aim at the cutting up of hind ior the smail uian and the cutting down of the power of the large man. The Farmern' I'liion have discovered the fact pointed out by us in mi article written when the Land Uill was hot oil' the pen of the Minister fur Lands that the limitation proposals arc on the whole unnecessary, seeing that the Government possesses at the present time all the power it reijuires to make the large man disS gorge. The original clauses in the Land JiiU gave the Government the power to do in ten years' time what it has tiepower to do now. If the Governuieut is in earnest about the settlement of the iund there will be no large estates in j, New Zealand in ten years' time, and therefore no need to use the contemplated machinery which t»ould be available ii' those limitation clauses were passed. Lots of men hold that as ail things come out of tile land, the only thing that should pay taxes is the thing that all things eoine out of. One wouldn't expect the Farmers' Union to subscribe to that, would one ' AVhcn the Ningletaxers am! SoeialUU convert the whole of the people of New Zealand, New Zealand will be getting all its supplies from abroad. Nobody is going to work tin' land it' the land carries all the burdens. It carries tjuite enough of a burden now. It is peculiar that a Single-taxer and a Socialist never select a struggling "cocky" lor an example of i he tremendous advantages of being o" the land that does not yet bear all the tuxes. They aelect a "fat" mail. The l arniers I nion says the "fat" man is going, and it wants him to go. The euiv for Single-takers and alleged i>o-i-i.tlist* is to force them on the land. A\ hat :i lot of political mischief eoubl be averted if all the laud crunks who are not iarmer.s could be given an axe, a hut. a hag nt flour and a few odds and ends and inadu to carve themselves out a home in the bushland! They would ha\e le>s time for theorising and telling the other fellow what he ought to do to make the world a brighter, better and Hipper piaoc for the man who mostly t.iik<." ,