THE BONANZA FARMS. 



the number had more than doubled, and in \ 

 eastern section, the very oldest portion of th- 

 tural region of our country, the increase 

 nineteen per cent. Of the movement hi the 

 decade enough is shown in the follow] 

 ter to demonstrate that within the last twej, 

 we have taken immense strides in placing our country 

 in the position in which Europe is found after a thou- 

 sand years of feudal robbery and tyranny of capital - 

 with the lands concentrated in large tracts in the 

 hands of the few, and cultivated by a people who are 

 but mere slaves of the rich. 



Before the end of the first quarter of the present 

 century this thing was simply impossible in the North- 

 ern States, though it existed in the Southern as a 

 natural feature of slavery. It was not till after labor 

 saving machinery had approached its present marvel- 

 lous development, and had displaced so great a per 

 centage of the manual labor of the country as to prac- 

 tically turn one half of the workers out of all produc- 

 tive pursuits, that unemployed labor became so abun- 

 dant and cheap as to be available in such operations. 

 Under present conditions capital can at any time de- 

 pend upon obtaining all the service required for any 

 emergency, upon its own terms, and it has become 

 possible, in the old free States, to profitably monopo- 

 lize and cultivate vast tracts of land as herein related. 

 Even so soon as the close of this second decade of the 

 movement in the North, it is found to have obtained 

 an acceleration equalled only by a body falling through 

 space. The effects growing out of this state of things . 

 are of the most serious character, and will inevitably 



