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but made applicable by the urgency of a 

 single vital problem. It is doubtful whether 

 a nation of cities could be a democracy. 



Not all the people should live on salary. 



I think that we need the example and 

 influence of men who do not live on salary. 

 One reason why boys leave the farm is 

 because in other occupations they are offered 

 wages or salary, and the risk of livelihood 

 is thereby reduced; but the very lessening 

 of this risk sacrifices much of a man's 

 self-reliance, it loses him his independence, 

 not only in directly securing the means of 

 support, but, what is more serious, in his 

 attitude toward society. 



Salary-practice is a concomitant of organi- 

 zation, and it goes with social stratification. 

 The man who receives salary exclusively de- 

 pends on some one else, and his opinions 

 are controlled, or at least modified, there- 

 by. Often to a very large extent he loses 

 his autonomy. There is a general feeling 

 among salaried men that they must engage in 



