It will not destroy capital or business. It may lessen the value of real
estate on the principal streets in large cities, and fall in values is
not certain even there. It will trouble no one, however, if it does; not
the present owner, even, for the value of property in favored localities
is so great now that, however much one man can own now, he can own but a
fraction of it under the proposed change. The owner of, say, a $400,000
building and lot on such a street as we are now considering may find a
shrinkage of $100,000. This will give him two partners instead of three.
The shrinkage, therefore, will be to his liking; for, be it known, the
aristocrat is a proud bird, and likes to flock by itself. And any
designs against these two partners will be so fruitless of results to
himself that a word in his ear now and then by his friends and
well-wishers, about the public treasury, will end in his cultivating,
such a lamblike submission to the new dispensation that his eloquence,
born of the new light and an awakened conscience, will make his titled
sister over the way give up her bauble when he shows her the cost of its
pomp to the struggling poor.

Such will be the effect of the change on a man who now carries the law
in his pocket, when he hasn't it under his feet.

Moving the laborer so far away from the centre of the city, and where
there is room to build habitable homes, will be a serious objection, it
will be urged. They cannot get to their work on time without getting up
at all hours. They can just have time to snatch a bite and be away
again. And the whole of Sunday must be given to sleep they cannot get at
any other time.

They will be strangers in the near-by theatre, and the near-by library