• " Tied " cottages were condemned to an audience
as ignorant . of the real objections as of the need and'desire of every stockman to be housed near his stock. Security of s the farmer's tenure was discussed without solving the difficulty of ousting a' bad farmer or recog- nizing the earnest desire of every landlord to keep a- good one. The- law has of late greatly increased security and penalized:the landlord at every change, but the chief security lies in good farming, just as the-labourer nowa-• days has little insecurity if he is of any use at his work. Playing fields were another boon to be given by the Labour Party. There are, we are glad to 'think, few villages that can get elevn players together yet cannot find a cricket pitch in the parish. (It is the towns that are worse off there.) Though British farming, production, distribution and agricultural wages can and ought to be improved, they compare well with those of other nations, and they will not be improved by rural votes going to support an essentially unrural party.
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