Mr. Gladstone.

"In my opinion if it is known to be for the welfare of the community at large, the legislature is perfectly entitled to buy out the landed page 17 proprietors for the purpose of dividing the land into small lots." "Those persons who possess large portions of the land of the earth are not altogether in the same position as possessors of mere personalty; for personalty does not impose the same limits on the action and industry and well-being of the community as does the possession of land, and therefore I hold that compulsory expropriation, if for an adequate public object, is a thing in itself admissible and even sound in principle."