64 LAND AND LABOR. 



.; upon our people the most terrible revolutionary 



icts. 

 ,is already begun and will complete the destruc- 



of the small farm i of our country, and 



it of existence the homes and homesteads of 



people. Because, under the operation of \\ 



talistic economists declare to be a "beneficent 

 competition," and the present great division of labor, 

 the small farmer can not successfully compete with 

 his gigantic neighbor who commands unlimited re- 

 sources of capital and cheap labor. The small farmer, 

 in this " beneficent competition," is in the same rela- 

 tive position to the great farmer as is the hand loom 

 weaver by the side of the great Pacific Mill, in Mas- 

 sachusetts, or the hand pressman in the midst of the 

 mighty machines of Printing House Square. No one 

 individual, nor aggregation of individuals can, by the 

 unaided use of his or their personal labor, under any 

 system of combination or cooperation, successfully 

 compete with unlimited combinations of machinery, 

 capital, and cheap labor in either weaving or printing ; 

 neither can it be done in farming. In the case of 

 either the hand loom weaver, the hand pressman, or 

 the small farmer, they are alike dependent on their 

 own unaided exertions, with the tools and machinery 

 that each can successfully use ; and upon their indi- 

 vidual production alone must each and all subsist and 

 obtain the comforts of life, if they have any. But the 

 capitalist <loes not enter into the labors of either of 

 16 employments, nor any other. He buys the 

 ch'-apcst and most effective labor to be had in the 

 market, and uses it in such manner as to constantly 



