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veloping. There, have heen some changes in the 

 instruments used and methods of procedure, but the 

 results are practically the same. The hands of the 

 great proprietors are no longer shielded with gauntlets 

 of iron, but are covered with softest kid, tipped with 

 finest furs. But the kid and furs beautifully disguise 

 a vast increase of active crushing power. They no 

 longer seize the sword as the weapon of oppression, 

 but wield the pen, which is mightier, and are sup- 

 ported by an army of economic teachers who have 

 studied only in the schools of feudalism. These 

 teachers have not yet learned anything of the great 

 developments of the present century, nor of their 

 causes or effects, but like the barbarians they repre- 

 sent, would force the people to believe "that the 

 more the rich may gain in wealth the more the poor 

 may gain in comfort." 



Having transplanted from the old feudal nurseries 

 their laws, and made them our own, it follows, as a 

 matter of necessity, that we must reach the same re- 

 sults, and we find them in our tenant farms, our great 

 land holdings, our monopolies, the wealth and power 

 of the few, and the miseries of the many. Our laws 

 and teachers having prepared the way and laid the 

 foundation for these great social evils, they have come 

 upon us with the inexorable certainty of fate. Do 

 the conditions under which we live require the longer 

 continuance of a system founded under the circum- 

 stances described, and with such results ? There can 

 be but one answer. 



It must be apparent to every thoughtful person 

 that a system of land and labor laws that found its 



