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Temuka Leader, Issue 2741, 22 November 1894, Page 4

Small Fabms. —Mr Jesse Collins, speaking at a Dairy Farmers’ Conference in Swizerland. said “ In. travelling from Basle to Zurich, no one whose eyes were not blinded by prejudice could fail to see the immense aivantages ef a peasant proprietorship, n «t only from an economic, but also from a social point of view ; and he trusted the British representatives would not go home without carrying that important lesson with them. The British people were the ouly people in the world who had a landless peasantry, and that was a position that was full of danger. What made Switzerland so stable a country was that It had a people who were anchored to the soil. On the other hand, Englandhad a proletariat, a wage-earning class, who could bo marched anywhere they liked. He asked them seriously how they could expect a people to love their country, to love their native land, if they were denied their right or privilege of having any of it for themselves ! He trusted that the principles which had made Switzerland a j~yeat, prosperous, and contented nation would BOOH be introduced into England, for no country could be either great or prospei ous unless its greatness were based on the prosperity of a numerous, contented and loyal peasantry,