Parliamentary and Public Action.

The Resolution leaflet, already named, has, we believe, been of considerable service to the cause of Land Nationalisation during the General Election. It was sent to all Parliamentary Candidates, to 900 Clubs, and to 150 leading Newspapers. The "Saturday Review" devoted a column and a half to its condemnation; a cheering fact, which we venture to regard as prophetic of the acceptance of this resolution, ere long, by Parliament. Among other kindred societies, the Financial Reform Association has cordially endorsed it, and co-operated with us. The direct representation that our cause now has in Parliament, and also the probability of this strength being largely augmented by the majority of the Irish members, is a hopeful result of the Educational work hitherto done. It is therefore our confident hope—based not alone on these indications of the movement of public thought, but also on the ever increasing necessity for Land Nationalisation, which the continued depression of trade discloses—that, at no distant date, the vital principle of Land Nationalisation may be fully debated in the House of Commons, and that, starting from the Constitutional fact which the Resolution declares, the present Stewards of British Land may be required to render an account of their Stewardship.

In our last year's report we noticed that landlords had formed a "National Land Co. Limited." Now we learn that there is an Association of Landlords for the voluntary extension of Allotments, under the presidency of the Duke of Westminster It appears that 340 Landlords and 380 Clergymen are already quickened for "the amelioration of the condition of the labourers," as members of this association.

At the Fabian Society's Conference held on June 9th and the two following days, at the South Place Institute, a paper was read by Mr. Jameson, as delegate from this Society, on the "Utilization of Land." Our President also spoke in the discussion that followed, elucidating points in our programme which the enforced brevity of the paper read had caused to be untouched. The aim of this paper was page 10 to show that the ownership and monopoly of 75 per cent of the nation's land by 17.000 persons was the cardinal difficulty in the way of utilizing the soil, and that neither by the free transfer of land, nor by the taxation of land, could this difficulty be removed, and that these 17,000 persons must, as landlords, themselves be removed, in order to free the land effectually and permanently. The sympathies of the audience appeared to be generally with this view. The main objection taken to the Society's scheme was its tenderness to present landholders.