Industrial Remuneration Conference; The Report of the Proceedings and Papers Read in Prince's Hall, Piccadilly Under the Presidency of Sir Charles W.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1885 Excerpt: ... would ask you to inquire whether it be not true that the sphere of our national industry in which competition has least been permitted to work evil, in which capital expenditure has least been considered on grounds of unmixed self-interest, in which philanthropic and semi-philanthropic motives in the conduct of business have been allowed their freest scope, has not been that of the management of large landed estates; and whether it has not been found that, within certain limits, the larger the estates have been, the more clearly have these facts appeared? If, as I believe, impartial investigation compels you to answer these questions in the affirmative, I would further ask whether a country of which these things may be asserted, and of which it is also true that it has taken the lead in every great agricultural improvement by which the necessaries of life have been cheapened for mankind, can be reasonably said to suffer under a species of land tenure radically and essentially bad; and if not, whether we need entertain much hope that the improvements which the system may require, will be effected in it by those who approach its consideration with their judgment obscured by any such violent and irrational prepossessions? NOTE ON THE 'ORIGINAL PEOPERTIES' OF THE SOIL. There are still further deductions to be made from the existing causes of what landlords receive under the general name of rent, before we arrive at that nucleus, not due to the work of man but to that of nature, which, in the opinion not only of Mr. George but of other and less revolutionary references, the State has a right to deal with in an exceptional manner. In the text I have not supposed the landlord to have any right to that part of the value of his land which is due either to railroads...