IQO FROM A NEW ENGLAND HILLSIDE. 



every dollar s worth of property in exist 

 ence ; it must be put clown at the cost of 

 everything which society possesses ; at the 

 cost, if need be, of wiping off the face of the 

 land all that has been put upon it during 

 the past four hundred years, leaving a clean 

 page, upon which, let us hope, to write a 

 more cheerful history. 



This is the way it looks to us at Under- 

 ledge, and we are ready to do our part, if 

 called upon, to correct the abuse. But it 

 seems to us a not unimportant fact in 

 connection with this time and the future, 

 that there are said to be hundreds of thou 

 sands of persons throughout the country, 

 scattered here and there all over the land, 

 who are associated in this movement, or 

 who sympathize with it, or who, under 

 slightly different conditions, would take 

 similar action, and that it is impossible to 

 show them the utter folly of their beliefs, 

 and of their course ; that governors of 

 states, United States senators and repre 

 sentatives, and lesser officials innumerable, 

 give aid and comfort to them ; that min 

 isters of the gospel and college professors 

 pander to their fallacious fancies and stim 

 ulate their wild hopes, and thus promote 

 their destructive work. Not that all these 



