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Show 1 RIDER HAGGARD PREDICTS DIRE I FATE FOR WHITE RAGE '"'JVi Says it is Threatened With Dcstauction Unless There is 3 S' fe' Gcncaal Back in the Land Movement Power, of Cities i l, Great Menace. 1 Hf London, Jim, 14. "Mr. Hldor llii'i- K B$ K'lr1 's Probably moat widely known F KjF an a, novelist, but an a rontter of fact jf Kg? there are few men writing KngllRh B, EL' whoHO bookH on vital sociological que I, ap lions are of Htich aluc iib his, and l&. hardly one atnonp tblH HinuU num- R Jp ber vsho has grasped as ho haH grasp cd the dangers thnt beset the future ., of the Kngllsh Hpcuklug people, and - the way these dangers can best be mot." Theodore Ilooovrlt In Tbo v, I - Outlook. 5; "" I have Just bud a remarkable Intir- t ' " view with the man of whom the above ij " was written. In the library of bis Nor- in; : folk home, Dttchlngbam House, dv ; ' ' libcrately and vvltlf gient earnestness L ho told me of what he called "Tho W. greatest problem now confronting fl ; civilization." lie told mo of tho fbrtr- t ' , Ing of tbo people from the counti'y to tr: , the cities and predicted the ultimate fe ruin of not only the Kngllsh spfMkln,; ' races but of all while races ti'.i sn P? tho tendency was checked. ttL 1 Filler Haggard Is a great, puvv "ul, W i ' - fighting type of a mail with a mass Em - ' of brown hair and a pointed beavd gj For years and In many parts of tho hi?, '' world he has made a close study of R& . ' land questions and agriculture, cftye- i.' elally from tho viewpoint of tho small W man, I bollovo I am not overstating fX his iiuallflcatlons to speak with an authorltlve voice when I say Unit ' probably no other man In tho wor'd f knows tho subject so well. Ho Is him- !, self 11 Inndownur and at Dltcblugbam 5' bo fnrms about (iOO acres, keeps a It largo herd of cows and sends milk in vjf the I.oiidon market dally. Coming iroin w ' old squlro stock he bus always been f, connected with the land and ill" "tl practical experiences derived from his Jsjj - Norfolk life has been forfeited by In- Wi - ' vestlgiitlous In Ucumark. the United B&: v States and t'auada, and South Africa. f'V f ' We talked In the beautiful llhr.M-y $ t of Dltchlnghum House, a great loom f.$ ' running the full uldtli of the right 'i'1 , ' wing of tbo manor. Tbo walls are JV. , covered with tho original Illustrations ft! fa "f lr' "'iggnrd'H many books and lie-SEE lie-SEE ' mentocs of bis almost Incessant globoid globo-id trotting. Itldt'i' I laggard stood In front fe- of the big fire place or lolled In an nrmebair, weighing each word before Wj " ho spoke It. Menace of the Cities. ' "The drift of country population 10 't, . the towns and cities, with their many W . niuuseinents, Indulgencles of vices and 8J & higher wages," said Mr. Haggard, "'s iR sapping the strength of not only die WT M. -j" Kngllsh but of every white race. It Is TOG, 1110 "'"' '''ber wages nro to be oh ; H tallied In the towns by the altogether ',W , fit and strong, but on the other band Swt ' mnv "m,iy tl'rl) fall 11 nd end with '" " tMU'r families In completo miser " 'l$U There certainly Is not employment for J''l everybody and the siinouudlngB are Jfi! . 'nr f''"m healthy. jl " "This flocking to the Iowiik mean. ."'m, , the ultimate destruction of tbo white !fB race If It continues unchecked. Wo see if-"1 tj It now turning the rnce Into a sol of Jfj neurotic creatures, unfit, at any into jfij R . In tho second and thirit generation, u K'.el face tbo realities of existence. It Is fill" T. 1,1 lug tho poor bouses, tho asylums and !' tho hospitals. I Bay, heaven help the people who mainly dwell In great cities without access to the laud. vo ' remain great a people must be J noted in tho land. Thnt Is why all wiso statesmen, nil people who can think and see things in their true prop ir-tlons ir-tlons should endeavor at any cost -o preserve 01 recreate h large am! healthy rural population. "In my opinion this Is the 11101,1 Important Im-portant question of the age. The floM. Ing of the landborn to the city has il ways been prollmlnarv to tho destru -tion of nations. There is not iho slightest reason to supposo nututo will change- her decree In this matter. I'M, Although iny knowledge of the United 1- States is limited to tho first-hand ax- ,'' l'crlences of a traveler who has vlsltol j 3 It twice, once as n private person un.l u ? ouce In nn official capacity, and the ,' , MConiMinnd information of ouo who f ;.i hastnlkcd with many of Ita Intolll- '' f Kent men, J say that conditions uro i '' Just as bad In tbU respect there is 1 they nro hero. f I Denmark an Object Lesson. S ' "Kngland, the United States ind J' tho rest of tbo world should turn to I Denmark as an object lesson. Den- ! mark can teach tho whole world the ! boneflts of cooporntlon, and the value of scientific cdurntion nn applied to land. It Is n small country and some time back It wna confronted with a 1 Mttfe agricultural rrUls which would have wm 1)Ccn ',lta' had t not been met u he x right way. They was ovolved and subsequently sub-sequently perfected a great co-oper-ntlve system under which Denmark? attained at-tained 11 icraarknblo irospcrlty, considering con-sidering Its size nnd climate. One has but to look nt Its exports of agricultural agricul-tural products eggs, butter, bacon, pork, etc., to realize this. It is preeminently pre-eminently a country of the small man. I have seen In Denmark 0110 of the finest large farms I have ever seen In any country, but such cases nro exceptional ex-ceptional and the majority of holdings are small. There arc only a few moro than 800 holdings of over 510 ncres omit, as against 110,1)00 odd holdings of 7 and a quarter acres or under each. Most of tho land there Is held In freehold: over !'0 per cent of Iho dairy fanners In Denmark own the land they farm, "In Knglnnd there exists n great deslie to further tho small-move-incut, and Increase tho number of the small holders. This desire recently found expression in tho net under which county councils can hire or purchase pur-chase land nnd let It out to smallholders. small-holders. Tho net Is la foreo now nni II number of fanners have taken holdings hold-ings under Its provisions. The difficulty diffi-culty Is to mnko small-holdings pay while at the snnio tlmo following the methods of tbo Inrgo Knglish fanners, Fanning, through one cause or another anoth-er such ns thu heaping of rates and other burdens on the land and the competition of untaxed foreign products, pro-ducts, Is not highly remunerative In Knglnnd. As a farmer of, say, ,"00 ne-res ne-res finds It not by any means easy to earn n reasonable profit and leturn of Interest on capital Invested, what chance has an average small 1111111 i-f makulg a living and paying a hea rent to the county council if he merely mere-ly attempts to pursue the small nielli oils. that Is, growing grain, raising produce, and sending milk lo the market, mar-ket, healing In mind that frequently he lacks capital suffieleut to enable him to stand the strain of a bad sen sou or two, thai be bus 110 eredit society so-ciety from which to borrow funds, and speaking gcncrnll, that co operatlou is unn-oNlstcut among bis class and that therefore he cannot enjoy the heuullis or eo-opcnillve buying ami selling. 'One of the leugoiiB of I lie Danish, Ainiui holiiers, compnrntlw success ns that he is, lor his stniiou, an ex leiuel) well educated 1111111. 1 or in 'Uini'e, In DelimnrU thuie aie three colli ges devoted to tho education 01 suinll-holilcrs. oting men or women ul not less than l!t can go lo these foi 11 sl mouth's course with wlilcn is funilHlied hoard, lodging ami till tlon, for eleven dollars a mouth. Aflev the age of lb there is no limit and quite elderly people attend. I even heard of one man of seentj who look a course. In those colleges tho students stu-dents nto Instructed in everything of use to small-holders, or Instnuco, in addition 10 all ngiiculturul pursuits, the women are taught homo-nursing, bookbinding mid briisb-ninklng, tho ic-suit ic-suit liciug that they leave college to ; wring their living from the boll much belier equipped tlinii the Drills) small' holder. 1 Examples at Failure. Mi 1 (intention Is that small holding siieieeds only where there Is cooperation coopera-tion anil knowledge I am nn abnoluto disbeliever in what I call 'spoonfed' small-holders. It Is uo use taking people peo-ple and spending largo sums of mon ev hettlng them up ou land nnd expecting ex-pecting them to huccced. In most cases these come to nothing but grief. A striking Illustration Is furnished by the public spirited or an American, Joseph Fels, tho soap uiauufatcurer. l'els started a small-holding farm at Mnyland, In Rssex, and spent mail) thoubands of pounds placing selected men upon It. What has been tho result? re-sult? Aftor a few jours only two or threo men nro left to fight against tho obstacles which tho others found too great for them or wore unfitted to overcome Still another Instance Is furnished by Iloxted, nenr Colchester, where tho Salvation Army, with the help of $200,000 loft by tho late Geo. Honing, Btnttcd a bnck-to-the-lnnd col ony. Although It has boen going but n year, already serious troubles have arlson nnd thero Is, I understand, some danger of a breakdown of the schemo. "Small-holders, in my opinion, will only be successful through tbolr own efforts, aided by co-operation, knowledge knowl-edge and intensive culture of h land A'nongh I think th's h n nni'onnl problem I do not consider It the duty of tho government to entirely finan 0 schools for small-holders. To be sure, ' a stato grant might bo made and county coun-ty authorities might help, nlso.,1 look to public spirited men of wealth to give the scheme tho Initial support that It needs. Kvcntually, however, these colleges should become self-supporting. Take tho case 'of tho school at Itlngsted, In Denmark, which was foundciHn 1903. It haB accomodation accomoda-tion for 200 men nnd women, and In 1910 It had Instructed moro than 0000 people. It started with a state loan of $10,625, a private grant of $11,350 and a guaranteed loan of $4,155 made by townspeople and farmers Interested. In 1910 tho school, with Its experimental experi-mental farm, was valued at $110,000 and Insured for $85,000, and It now pays its own way. If this can be dono In Denmark, why cannot It ho dono In England, or any other country? "The difficulty I see In Knglnnd lies In persuading any considerable number num-ber of the clnss suitable for small holders, to agree to tako such i course of Instruction and topay a small fee. Unfortunately thero Is a very general Idea that knowledge of the land and bow to work It comes b) tho light of nature. Proposes a Remedy. "I have already suggested that In Cambridgeshire, us nenr to Cambridge as can conveniently lie managed, where tho land Is specially suited for small-holdings because of the prevalence preval-ence of fen-land thnt can bo easily worked with a slnglo horse, nn Institution Insti-tution for the education of small-hold ers, based ns nenriy ns possible on tho model of itlngsted, should bo established. establish-ed. In such an Institution 110 one, mill" or female, should be admitted until they were nt least 10 enrs of age I should itVefea- IS. There should bo n summer and winter course of five or six mouths each. Tho pupils should be asked to pay a siunll siim In return re-turn for the great advantages the) would receive, (for 1 do not believe in mental any more than in physical pauperization.) There should bo no examinations ex-aminations but discretionary power should ho given to those In nutborlly In the Institution to ask any who .ire Idle or worthless to retire. TIito Mii ul.! be 110 age limit of mlmissimi, for why shouldn't men or women of middle life have the right of leniuili whnl they wish to learn? Why should over) good gift be showered upon the voium? "I should ptopose that attached 10 the educational establishment thru 0 should bo 11 fin in of sufficient size to allow of the demonstration of every branch of agriculture llkel.v to bo of-benefit of-benefit to the small man. These should certainly Include fruit-growing, upln-culture upln-culture and poultry keeping. 1 "Unfortunately the question of small holdings Is becoming mixed up with politics in Knglnnd. .At the present moment there are two Schools of thought Ouo wants small-holders to occupy farms under county council leases which Is a step towards laud nationalization. Tho other school small-holders to become freeholders, which Is a step to.vnrds n largo Increase In-crease In Individual ownership, and Incidentally would menu an Increase in the number of conseivutives. Ten ants of hind of tho small holding class often remain radical, because they have something to agitato for thu lin ptnvement of their condition, lessening of rent ,ele., nctunl owners of lnnd 1111 the contrary, uro almost certain to become be-come conservative, becniisoJhoy have all they ciin get and wirnt lo keep what they have. "This sucking paw or of tho towns," declared Itlder Haggard In conclusion, "Is a permanent problem confronting civilization. It was so In Homo and It Is so today. Thero is 110 stability of ' character to bo found In tbo town-dweller. town-dweller. He Is easily carried away by his feelings. Wo must look to the dwellers on tho land for that fixity of character which u country needs to to-mnln to-mnln groat." KARNKST 1.. HKITICAMI'. - |