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PROMPTED THIS BOOK 



children, and for the good of others that remain 

 in the city; for the good of the whole country, 

 and, last but not least, for the good of the human 

 race. If a few go away from a tenement house, 

 it will give a chance for only five to sleep in a 

 room where ten are now crowded together. Let 

 a few of the unemployed take up duties on a 

 farm, there to earn wages and live happily, for 

 then only fifty men would apply for a position 

 where now a hundred apply. 



THE CAUSE AND THE REMEDY. 



The tendency of population to flock to the 

 already congested cities is a menace to the pros- 

 perity of America. While much of the brain 

 and nerve power which is so great a force in the 

 cities of this country was originally nurtured on 

 the farm, the time has come when the farm 

 needs to retain much of that ability which it 

 has heretofore given so profusely to the city. 

 The twentieth century will recognize the farmer 

 as the king among the workers who benefit man- 

 kind. The dignity and independence of that 

 which our first President (himself a farmer) 



