| Show SHOULD BE STRONGLY OPPOSED WE recently gave a few potent facts and figures in relation to the bothwell canal scheme they were sufficient to show that it is not in the interest of the people but again it is much better that the necessary work to redeem the land from sterility should be done by the people themselves this prevents their being drained of their substance by cold corporations who not only scoop in great sums of the peoples money but gain possession of vast tracts of land it has been demonstrated that the more the masses do for themselves the more capable prosperous and self reliant they become it prevents the concentration cent ration of wealth a condition that tends to disrupt the country by precipitating disagreements and frequently bloodshed schemes of the kind referred to are so common that there can be no doubt that if it were possible to organize combines and corners upon the atmosphere the masses would only be permitted to breathe at the option bf the more grasping clapson class of capitalists and only on payment of an annual tribute for the privilege it is the duty of the people to defend themselves against such encroach ments and the government is in duty bound to aid them in their efforts in the line of self protection the project in question is of such magnitude and so far reaching that there should be a strong aphea appeal I 1 for the intervention of the arm of the huffe AC Y government that the commonwealth may be welded shielded from one of the most unmitigated and sweeping monopolies no that ever threatened this region it is a power that would it the scheme should carry have its hand upon the throat of the farming interest of an agricultural community this could not fall fail to be a calamitous condition |
