terms they can with their debtors, for it is a cardinal idea of this
needed readjustment that no one shall own more than 160 acres. But if
the lender does not own that amount of land, he can get and hold title
as at present.

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The result of the proposed change being to keep the income of the whole
country within its own borders, it follows that every section must find
itself with an abundance of capital such as was never known to them
before, giving them the means to carry on improvements that are entirely
beyond them now. At the present time, too, if a laborer, through errors
of judgment, should lose the savings of his years of youth and strength,
he can rarely recover the ground lost, and finds that paying his way
from day to day thereafter is all he can do, and when his work days are
gone for good he must either go to the poor-house or be cared for by his
relations, whose own load is about all they can bear up under. With the
income kept where it is made all this is would be changed, for then,
instead of having work only a part of the time, and poor wages besides,
the laborer, when his work for private parties gave out, could get work
from the local Government, which always has it to give, and the money to
pay for it. And should a laborer here and there through some unforeseen
cause, be forced by poverty and age to accept food and shelter that he
cannot pay for, his relations can provide for him, for the getting of
the mere food and clothing will not be the momentous question that it is
now. And this power of the local Government to give work will save many
a one from a fate that should never overtake the honest and willing.

Pauperism and crime can never be eliminated from society, any more than
the susceptibility to sickness and disease can be eliminated from flesh