LAND IN SCOTLAND.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 June 1913, Page 4

LAND IN SCOTLAND.

.JW >' repent epfeeoh Mir Lk>yd Qeearg© aaid 4i W&ep; Be*£ landf''■ I have had . your inwsiigratjoa .. "What- dt> I. ? A larger. «»niigratioa "even than in Ira* 'lpud; /, : : .jSeape»; year, and the most abte-bpdied, ?obast,' manly younjg rural districts fleeing from thaw D&tive land every year as if it were stricken with pestilence. Why? 5i is infested with the pestilence of land monopoly. We know the «te*y the Highlands, devastated and depopulated districts that used te be thronged, who supplied the beet warriors that the Empire ever eewt forth to do battle for it, whole tract® of which lie waste, turned over to deeff and grouse. In aIJ land legjelalson, one essential principle roast be recognised; that the first purpose e# land in thia country should not be tke eanJarring of pow»r and . pteaiisra upon H#i|jrmLr>od hot we j«v vision 'of ; and shelter fox the multitude who toil. After a£), the land of Soo£iazi<l ought not to be used prhoarily, for b®n«fit ef tbon wlio visit thaw ««»try iA«a is v , duals#, vm. % heatlaer is in Vbom. I%e had <rf Bootknd is for tl» »tidk to it and lore it wh«a the jriniers mix* aiid Bfnow imd tempest lasili JS&rtmfy aeainat its roflged iav». tSa ifcati must it® ok 1 Thm *&• %<** <& m** datmined to give tWir laßwr, tieir mdastsy J* *a«pa kad. But tiny rf»* '*• t&«iv aative h&rfk fllatl it* ta fkca as