249 CO-OPERATION 



IN OPERATION 



one instinctively knows that his natural "job" 

 is on the land. Those who are engaged in other 

 occupations than tilling the soil, as Emerson 

 says, " are using a makeshift and are only tem- 

 porarily excused from their real calling." Land 

 and labor are wed, whosoever puts them asunder 

 commits sacrilege; for in their union is health, 

 wealth, and happiness in their severance is dis- 

 ease, glut, and hunger, arrogance and misery. 



Therefore, workers, get land. 



How can the working class, poor men, get 

 land? Every acre of available land is held by 

 owners and costs more money than the average 

 worker can accumulate; he cannot buy a square 

 foot at a time, as he does a hod of coal or a 

 bundle of wood. How can such a hand-to-mouth 

 wage- worker buy land, even only an acre? 



By combining his slender surplus with the lit- 

 tle savings of others, and together pooling a 

 monthly sum, hardly more than they spend for 

 "beer and baccy," and organizing for the pur- 

 pose, a group of from twenty to fifty working 

 men can buy the best farm in their locality. 



This is being done extensively in the German 



