CHAPTER V. 



SUMMARY AND EFFECTIVE MEASURES FOR BREAKING 

 UP GREAT LANDED ESTATES AND TENANT HOLD- 

 INGS, AND RESTORING THE PUBLIC DOMAIN TO 

 THE PEOPLE. 



IN discussing these matters I can not see any good 

 reason why they should take on a personal form. 

 They are not questions of individual action, but of 

 systems, of governmental policy. Though individuals 

 appear as prominent exponents, or factors, in the de- 

 velopment of these systems, it is not because of any 

 predetermined action on their part, but because, in 

 the general movement of society in accordance with 

 present tendencies, these persons happen to be found 

 floating in the eddies that are constantly catching and 

 gathering the wealth borne by the great stream that 

 rushes onwards. If it were not these individuals it 

 would be others. These systems can not exist with- 

 out producing the exact types and effects that now so 

 prominently illustrate their workings. Therefore it 

 should be plain to every one that whatever war is 

 undertaken, because of the evils under which we suf- 

 fer, it is not to be waged against persons, except so 

 far as they attempt to defend the systems, but against 

 the systems themselves. Remedies are not to be found 



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