How would the Anglo-Saxon race have been spread over the globe? What would have drawn the emigrant ship to the desolate shores of Australia and New Zealand? No magnet would have charmed the hardy pioneer of civilization but the hope of bequeathing a freehold to his posterity. And now, after vast regions have been settled on the faith of the solemn sanction of the State, it is coolly proposed to rob the people or their descendants of the laird on which they have spent their life's blood, on the ground that it should never have been granted to them. Could human folly go further? Well, the process by which the wilds of North America were reclaimed within the past two centuries is just the process by which our own and other countries were settled at a still earlier period. You will always reach a point in which Neiman labour gave its first value to land, and without that labour it would have been as worthless as the soil of Kamskatgha is today" (SAMUEL SMITH, M.P.).

It is not by ''nationalisation of the land," but by reforming the people, that poverty and misery are to be abolished. In 18S2-3 the revenue derived from the drink duties was £.30,866,000, and for smoke, £8,800,000-a total revenue yearly from drink and smoke of £39,666,000. Mr. George would do good if he told the people the "only remedy" to extirpate poverty is "self-denial." They must drink and smoke less. With their present habits, by robbing the rich to help the poor, you will simply give them the power to get more alcohol and tobacco; or, what is more likely, they would produce so much less than they do at present; for, with the majority of the lowest class of the poor, it is only ''stern necessity," the being compelled to "work"