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landlords and other capitalists, our farmers, our 

 commercial and manufacturing classes no pro- 

 vision is made for the increase upon the numbers 

 of those classes of the community. It is true 

 that annuities have been proposed for the sons 

 of landlords and capitalists. These, however, 

 are only the means to an end. An annuity 

 only represents the industry of the father, not 

 that of the son. It is only when they have been 

 obtained, that the more important duties of 

 industry devolve upon annuitants. With them- 

 selves these would become extinct, leaving their 

 families behind them unprovided for, unless the 

 necessary means are used to provide against 

 contingencies of this kind. 



There is perhaps no class of the community 

 whose industry has been less fruitful than that 

 of this, the reason of which is obvious, because 

 no natural field has been open to its members 

 which they could profitably occupy. The battle- 

 field no doubt at one period was occupied by 

 thousands of them, while the sword of the 

 enemy kept pruning down their increasing 

 numbers to a fruitful standard: but war has 

 become antiquated. Post and pension, once so 

 fashionable, have been declared incompatible 



