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the common practice of small farmers in combining for the ownership 

 of mowers and reapers or in contracting for the harvest. 



No subject of greater importance could be brought before the Eng- 

 lish-speaking people; none of greater weight in maintaining our inter- 

 dependence with our kin beyond the seas. The right comprehension of 

 this problem will give assurance of peace, good-will and plenty. 



It may be interesting to call your attention to the fact that the 

 Pilgrim Fathers spent several years in Holland before they migrated 

 to New England. The larger part both of Pilgrims and Puritans 

 came from the southeastern counties of England, where institutions 

 had been greatly modified by Dutch, Flemish and Huguenot immi- 

 grants. The Dutch themselves settled New York and other colonies. 

 We derive our common schools, our toleration of religion, our welcome 

 to invention and our free division of land chiefly from the Dutch, 

 rather than from our English ancestors. It is true that the Puritans 

 were intolerant and that the Dutch attempted to establish large manors 

 in the State of New York, under patroons, so-called; but the more 

 liberal tendencies of the Pilgrims in New England, the Quakers in 

 Pennsylvania, the Baptists of Ehode Island, the Dutch in New York 

 and the Catholics in Maryland overcame the intolerance of the Puri- 

 tans, while the free system of land holding also displaced all other 

 tenures. 



