土地是各種生物賴以生存之根本，當土地私有化之後就涉及複雜經濟因素之介入。林獻堂是臺灣日治時期的大地主，其推動臺灣民族運動、社會救濟與文化啓蒙等所有經費，絕大多數來自於佃租。獻堂的田產經營保守穩健，常以儒紳的角色處理業佃關係，體恤佃農的勞苦，不輕易起佃換耕，遇災減租，關心米價並訴諸抗議行動。在1920年代以後臺灣農民運動崛起，獻堂以開明作風，組織坑口農事自治村，建立傳統與現代作風融合的業佃關係，以德行為中心思想的經濟活動經營，在平衡個人財富與佃農生活的人文思考領域上，實踐個人入世的社會服務觀與生命價值。

Land is for the fundamental survival of all biological, after land privatization, it had involved the complicated economic factors. During the period of Taiwan was colonized by Japan government. Lin promoted Taiwan's nationalist movement, social relief and cultural enlargement, all these funds, mostly from Lin's tenancy business. He has the role of Confucian gentleman, to handle his land property, to compassion at sharecroppers working class, and not to stop the opportunity of tenant for cultivation, when meet disaster to reduce rent, and access to concern the rice price with participating the related protest actions. After 1920s' the Taiwanese agrarian movement started extremely, Lin organized the Ken-Ko autonomy village to establish tradition and modern sense of tenancy relationship, he took moral character as center to manage his economic activities, as that, to balance personal wealth and tenant live finally to practice personal view into social service and fulfilled his life value.