We have dealt elsewhere with the gigantic delusion that State
development can really increase the wealth of the nation. It must, rather, empty its pm-se, and, still worse, sterilise its energies. Here we will only say that if the Unionist Party, instead of protesting against the development madness, takes the fatal step of competing with the Liberals in the policy of national waste, it will forfeit the confidence of the saner portion of the electorate. Before we leave the subject we desire to congratulate the Daily Express for giving special prominence in its columns to the subject of Land Banks, and for pointing out the immense benefits which these institutions can confer, and how they may help to keep the people on the land, or even bring them back to it. We hope that the land. lords will do all they can to help and encourage this wise form of development.
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