107 REASONABLE 



PROSPECTS 



Increased production and wider prosperity will 

 help his land values; for it is self-evident, when 

 one thinks of it, that any improvement in the 

 condition of the earth must go first and mainly 

 to the owners of the earth. 



But the hard pressed city man does not want 

 theories nor statistics; he wants to know what 

 show there is for him, and where he shall go and 

 what he is to do when he gets there. He wants 

 to know how he is to earn more than he is earn- 

 ing and more surely, by his own effort, and what 

 land to huy and how to use land that may make 

 him rich through the efforts of others if he only 

 knows how to hold on to it. 



He does not need much land for either pur- 

 pose. An acre in the Bronx Borough of New 

 York City, where I saw vegetables growing less 

 than ten years ago, will sell to-day for more than 

 a hundred thousand dollars. 



" One man in one year, as I have understood," 

 said Carlyle in " Sartor Resartus," " if you lend 

 him earth, will feed himself and nine others." To- 

 day one man, with access to an acre, can feed 

 scores, no matter where that acre may be. 



