remove him. It follows, then, that we must break up the big capitalist,
if we ever expect to get at the thing behind him.

We are not indifferent to the hardships of the oppressed of other
nations, but we cannot get out of our own perplexities by saying that we
are more favored in some way than are others. There are rocks ahead of
ourselves, and watching others going to pieces and firing congratulatory
guns will not help them or save us from, a like fate.

Whatever is in the near future for Europe, we, at least, have nothing to
fear as to the capacity of our country to support all her people. And as
it is with room for producing, so it is with room in which to live.
There is plenty of both, and we should show ourselves worthy of the
legacy left us by that handful of brave men who established liberty in
our country, and insist on getting plenty of both before the armed
hireling appears and it is too late.



IX.

We will now apply the principle of Confiscation to land, and we will see
that Confiscation alone can undo the wrong that has of late become
apparent to even the law makers in Washington. Up to within three years
or so there were two ways by which farming lands could be obtained from
the Government - by homesteading and preempting.

It is unnecessary to give the laws of either, but so fast was this class
of land going that Congress repealed the preemption law. In other words,
the amount you could obtain was cut down one half - from 320 acres to