42 ORGANIC MATTER 
It is said that in the magic transformation of dirt on 
the farm into dollars no one is robbed. True—if the 
one who touches the soil with the magic wand is not a 
soil robber. But the wand in the hands of a soil robber 
plunders all mankind alike, and as some one has said in 
thought, Mother Earth, resenting the infamy heaped 
upon her and her people, bears the pain in silence but 
inflicts the awful punishment that falls on all alike, by 
withdrawing her bounty. 
