Quack Nostrums.

There were many indications that people had [unclear: ing] felt that something was wrong in [unclear: conection] with the method adopted in the [unclear: occution] of the land; but they did not seem to [unclear: e] exactly where the mistake was. A great [unclear: many] quack nostrums had been proposed by different people as remedies, and he had [unclear: himself] been accused of bringing forward one of [unclear: these] quack nostrums. (A voice: "Hear, [unclear: ar].") However that might be, he would [unclear: k] them to give him a fair hearing whilst he [unclear: pre] his defence of the nostrum he was [unclear: ggesting]. He would first refer to some [unclear: of] the nostrums which were being [unclear: oght] forward by others for the [unclear: benefit] of the wage-earning classes. Of [unclear: these] were protection and relief works. Others [unclear: id] that they must have a loan, and the [unclear: money] was borrowed. Other schemes had [unclear: e] their object the placing of the wage-[unclear: ners] upon the land. The last of these [unclear: s] the proposal of the Premier to supply [unclear: eap] money to the small farmers. This [unclear: would] simply result in bringing about a [unclear: ener] competition for the available land, [unclear: d] the price would at once go up. The [unclear: ney] would thus eventually find its way [unclear: so] the pockets of the land-owning [unclear: population]. (Applause.)