Excerpt from Land Reform: Occupying Ownership, Peasant Proprietary, and Rural Education
During the past few years several Allotment Acts have been passed by Parliament which have conferred great benefits on the rural labouring population. A Small Holdings Bill also, after years of delay, became law in 1892. From causes which will be referred to, County Councils, in whose hands the administration of this Act was placed, have, with few exceptions, made no attempt to deal with it. But in the few cases where the Act has been put into operation, the results have been most satisfactory and encouraging. The chief significance, however, of these measures lies in the fact that Parliament, by passing them, has reversed its former policy. The Legislature has at last recognized the principle of giving public aid to restore to the labourers some little of that personal interest in the soil of which ages of previous legislation had so completely deprived them.
The Purchase of Land (England and Wales) Bill, introduced in the session of 1904, while containing the same principle as the Small Holdings Act, is a far more important measure, affecting, as it does, all classes of the agricultural industry. It seeks by State aid to restore those classes of yeoman farmers and peasant proprietors which in former times were such valuable elements in our rural economy, and had such a marked influence on the social life of the nation.
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