RAILROAD LAND GRANTS. 



respected by the reformers, alike popular and imperial ; and 

 tbeir inevitable growth inevitably swallowed up the small 

 farms of new creation, and ultimately destroyed Rome. For 

 its manhood was gone ; the wealth of millionaires could not 

 purchase back honesty or courage ; and the defence of merce- 

 naries failed to form a barrier against the wars of hardy north- 

 ern invaders. Pliny's words, 'latifundia perdidere Italium,' 

 embraces the truth, yet more fully made clear in many a gene- 

 ration after he wrote." 



Are we not repeating that bit of history ? 



