Our Programme.

Referring to this Society's programme, the Executive hopes ere long to submit a simplified application of its principles in a suggested Land Nationalisation Bill. Such a Bill has been drawn and printed by Mr. F. A. Binney, a solicitor, of Manchester, well known as the author of several admirable publications on Social Reform, and we hope to be able to concur sufficiently with a modified reprint of the proposed Bill for the Society to issue it. As there seems good reason to believe that some of our members may enter Parliament at the next General Election, the value of such a Bill is obvious, as it is most desirable that Land Nationalisation should be brought within the range of practical politics during the very first session of the new Parliament, if not by Bill, by resolution of the House on the main principle.

In conclusion, we would add that everything tends to a far more rapid acknowledgment of our principles than could have been anticipated when the Society was formed. The intolerable social condition of great masses of our fellow-creatures—as exemplified by the recent Report on the Housing of the Poor—is a subject pressing more and more heavily on the minds of all right-thinking men and women. Day by day the conviction is growing in the public mind that Land Monopoly is the main cause of this state of things; and as that conviction must spread and strengthen, the recent extension of the Franchise will soon give the necessary power to Nationalise the Land. Remembering this, and that support could not be given to a better cause, we most earnestly invite all who agree with us in principle to join in our mission of justice. We do not expect agreement with the details of our tentative programme. We simply ask effective concurrence with the object of this Society : "To equitably restore to the Nation its Land, so that all may have equal facilities to use and enjoy the Land, and equally benefit by the revenue derived from it."

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Land Nationalisation;

Its Necessity and its Aims.

Being a comparison of the System of Landlord and Tenant with that of Occupying Ownership in their Influence on the Well-being of the People.

By

Alfred Russel Wallace, LL.D.

Author of "The Malay Archipelago," "Island Life," &c., &c.