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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 70

The land Question

The land Question.

How can we wonder at their feeling nervous? For leading men of undoubted influence and probity even out-George Henry George. The Hon. J. Ballance said: "I go even further than he (i.e., Henry George) does, and I say that the State should own all land; I say that the State should not part with a single acre more page 11 of its land, for I believe thoroughly in land nationalisation." Hansard No. 21, p. 372. Mr. Withy, too, whose high moral standing gives his words weight, while Member for Newton, said to the electors: "The reading of his (i.e., Henry George's) books nine years ago convinced me that he was right. (Applause.) . . Since that time my conviction has been deepened year by year as I considered the facts, and asked myself regarding them—my conviction has deepened that he is right. Private ownership in land is a bad system, inimical to the best interests of a people. (Applause.) See pre-sessional address, pp. 13, 14. Sir Robert Stout said in July, 1890, to a representative of the Times: "I believe that in time to come the State will have to interfere far more with land-holding than it has ever attempted in the past, or than has, perhaps, ever been proposed by any Bill in the past." See New Zealand Herald, July 10, 1890.