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four times faster than the human family increase to work and pay 

 such tax, that pauperism must also increase much faster than the 

 population '? 



Had not the productive power of man's physical strength been 

 largely expanded by the aid of labor-saving machinery, propelled by 

 steam and water, within the last twenty-five years, the number of 

 paupers in this State, and of those just above public charity, would 

 be double what it now is. 



One of the greatest misfortunes that fall to the lot of the farming 

 community is their extreme proneness to incur liabilities, and under- 

 take the payment of interest. These people do not sufficiently study 

 the relation that capital bears to humanity. They forget that a hu- 

 man being, who must have more than 1,000 meals, to say nothing of 

 clothes, in 365 days, cannot safely offset his productive labor against 

 the service of dead matter. 



He should freely give for the use of capital, all it can earn without 

 the aid of human muscle and thought, but no more. The poor far- 

 mer- should ever bear in mind the fact that no amount of silver can 

 possibly produce one kernel of wheat ; and if he offset his industry 

 against the use of SjOOO silver dollars, he must either eat what he 

 had before earned, or what some other man produces, or he must 

 starve. 



How" cruelly have thousands suffered, because they failed to remem- 

 ber that a debt on land will last for 100 generations, and extort from 

 poor, toiling humanity, an annual tribute more remorseless than the 

 grave. Beware, then, how you degrade the human intellect, and hu- 

 man flesh and blood. These greatly need, for their full development 

 and comfortable support in infancy, manhood, sickness and protracted 

 old age, the entire proceeds of one pair of honest hands. Never for- 

 get that whatever you give to inert matter, is so much stolen from a 

 living soul and living body. This great truth should be known, that 

 no man can make a beast of burthen of his physical frame, and not in- 

 flict infinite wrong on his immortal mind. To supply our natural 

 physical wants, no one need labor beyond what is necessary to impart 

 health and vigor to his body and his mental faculties. Why, then, ' 

 degrade a human being almost to a level with the ox that he drives, 

 by compelling him, like the patient ox, to give to the world twice as 

 much as he receives in return 1 Tt is thus that we create that rebel- 



