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Show LAriDOIJERSIIJ' BIEIMHIDED Threat of GoTernment Seizure Seiz-ure Seriouslj Made LONDOX. OcL U. The big land owners of Kngtan4 bare been told, la substance, that aa a class they have I snsde a bad mess of tbe land business and that If they did not do better In the future tbe country would take the land from them and turn them adrift. . The speaker was Lord Bledlsloe. himself a big land owner, who. during tbe war, helped tbe government manage man-age tbe food supplies of the country. Tbe occasion was an addrens before tbe British association. The British agricultural land owner today la his trail.' Lord Bledlsloe eaeerted. lnlees hs justifies himself ss such tbe natlonalisstlon of the land Is Inerltsbie. Hublle opinion will demand de-mand bis extinction sod parliament will endorse tbe demand, "Many .and owners have 'been for two generations nothing more than rent receivers, and they have possessed neither the knowledge nor the incline- 1 lion personally to administer their own estates, still less to cultivate them on commercial lines for their own and tbe nation's benefit. ' ' "So far aa they bare been organised aa a class of the community they have been organised, not ss prodgcers of wealth, but as defenders of property. ( and as such their organisation baa. in a highly democratic coontry, afforded them but a smsll snd steadily decreaa-Ing decreaa-Ing measure of security. They have thus Inet their political power because they had no economic basis. Tbey v hsve, not wholly without Justification, been stigmatised as Ignorant, reaction ary and deapotlc |