(e.g., communications, national defence). Land acquired illegally (according to German law) may be confiscated without compensation.
- It is the duty of the State to colonize land which has become available, by a scheme based on high con¬ siderations of a policy of population. The land shall be allotted to settlers as a hereditary possession under conditions which shall make a livelihood possible. Settlers shall be selected by examination as to their civic and professional suitability. Special favour shall be shown to sons of farmers who have not the right to inherit (see §7).
Colonization of the eastern frontiers is of extreme importance. In this case the mere establishment of farms will not be sufficient, but it will be necessary to set up market towns in connection with the new branch of industry. This is the only way to provide an open¬ ing for making the smaller farms a paying proposition.
It will be the duty of Germany’s foreign policy to provide large spaces for the nourishment and settle¬ ment of the growing population of Germany.
- THE FARMING GLASS MUST BE RAISED ECONOMICALLY AND EDUCATIONALLY 1. The present poverty of the land population must be at once relieved by remissions of taxation and other emergency measures. Further indebtedness must be stemmed by reducing the rate of interest on loans to that of the pre-war period by law, and by summary action against extortion.
- It must be the State’s policy to see to it that farming be made to pay. German agriculture must be protected by tariffs, State regulation of imports, and a scheme of national training.
The settlement of prices for agricultural produce must be freed from market speculation, and a stop must be put to exploitation of the