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" The property will give you a net income of 

 $40,000 or $50,000, and you will save $50,000 more 

 when you give up whiskey and get your beer for 

 less than one-fourth of what it now costs you. 

 The general store at which you have always 

 traded will be run in your interests, and all that 

 you buy will be cheaper. The market will be a 

 cooperative one, which will furnish you meat, 

 fattened on your own land, at the lowest price. 

 Your fruit and vegetables will come from these 

 broad acres, which will be yours and will cost 

 you but little. You will earn more money be- 

 cause you will be sober and industrious, and your 

 money will purchase more because you will deal 

 without a middleman. You will be better clothed, 

 better fed, and better men. Your wives will 

 take new interest in life, and there will be car- 

 pets on your floors, curtains at your windows, 

 vegetables behind your cottages, and flowers in 

 front of them. 



"All these things you will have with the 

 money you are now earning, and at the same 

 time you will be changing from the laborer to 

 the capitalist. The mine gives you a profit of 

 $40,000, and you save one-fourth of your wages, 

 which makes $50,000 more, $90,000 in all. What 

 are you to do with this ? Less than $20,000 will 

 cover the interest. You will have $70,000 to pay 

 on the principal. This will reduce the interest 

 for the next year more than $3000. Each year 

 you can do as well, and by the time the five 



