18.  Develop industrial villages, and also land settlements and co-operative farming.  Multiply allotments, both urban and rural, so far as economic conditions permit and there is a supply of people desirous and capable of working them.

19.  Introduce methods enabling persons without ready capital to acquire their cottages or small holdings by paying instalments on reasonable terms.  Why not an Ashbourne Act for England?

20.  Control the liquor traffic, not with a view to injure the publican, but to promote temperance, remembering that the business of the licensed victualler should be to provide wholesome food as well as drink, not to act merely as manager of a licensed house for extending the trade, and enhancing the profits of a brewery or distillery.

21.  Simplify the Land Laws and make transfer easier and less costly.

22.  Amend the law relating to marriage, and also on some points affecting personal status and devolution of property on death.

23.  Consolidate the Statute Law and amend and codify the Criminal Law.  Carry out the amendment of the Patent Law.

24.  Aid the development of Education without destroying the liberty of teacher or scholar or the variety of methods by too much control, rigid system, or over-elaborate organisation.

25.  Combat disease, encourage research in preventive medicine, and extend the application of its results.  In particular carry on the campaign against infectious and contagious diseases, and especially against venereal disease.

26.  Make better provision for playing-fields and open spaces, preserve places of historic interest and natural beauty, and make them accessible for the enjoyment of those who really care for them.

27.  Develop fisheries.

28.  Undertake afforestation systematically.

29.  Improve and cheapen internal transport, especially by reviving waterways.

A fairly long programme, but it might be added to.  Some of it is essential, all of it useful; some of it wants carefully guarding; none of it is beyond the sphere of practical politics.  We cannot afford to neglect any of the items.  All the activities of the Government, of the Legislature, and of private effort will be needed.  It is worth notice that there is not a single question in the whole list that need divide Parliament or the country on party lines.

This list deals only with strictly home matters.  Concurrently it will be necessary to deal with international questions, such as the formation of the League for securing peace, the constitution and regulation of tribunals for settling disputes, the resuscitation of International Law and reconsideration of its rules.  An attempt should be made towards assimilating, by arrangement, the laws of the mother country and the colonies and also of different nations, affecting commerce, and also as regards personal status—­nationality, naturalisation, and the validity of marriages.