THE CALL OF THE LAND 



erty. The lump of sugar for my tea is mine, 

 at least after it is dissolved in the tea. My 

 boots are certainly wealth in fee simple after 

 I begin wearing them. And so on. 



Now, if your system is going to allow for 

 any personal liberty whatever, the distribu- 

 tion of consumables will take place in the 

 gross a year's or a season's supply of flour, 

 corn, hats, horses, toothbrushes, scouring 

 sand, visiting cards, quinine, photographs 

 of yourself, ribbons, spectacles, gum drops, 

 and other supplies, whether necessaries or 

 luxuries; all, after you have drawn them 

 from the state's magazine, will be yours in 

 fee. Each citizen will thus possess in fee a 

 certain considerable stock of goods. This 

 being the case, inevitably, at times, citizen B 

 may have a surplus of some things which the 

 government cannot or will not supply and 

 which citizen C may wish and be willing to 

 pay for. In the aggregate such cases will be 

 legion, and often so exigent that traffic will 

 surely occur even in spite of police regula- 

 tion. It is, therefore, idle to say that any 

 form of socialism will wholly end trade, 



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