THE CALL OF THE LAND 



ceded, giving rise to a strike on the one hand 

 or a lockout on the other. The strife may 

 then spread from establishment to estab- 

 lishment, enforced idleness, underproduc- 

 tion and want ensuing, as is so unfortunately 

 the case at present. I cannot see how social- 

 ism is to assure any appreciable improve- 

 ment in matters of this sort. 



Hitches between supply and demand will 

 be worst in agricultural labor and products, 

 a fact rendering socialism specially ill- 

 adapted to agricultural populations. So- 

 cialist writers seem not to consider this. All 

 their reasoning seems based upon factory 

 and urban conditions. 



State socialists assume that their estab- 

 lishment of society would annul profits, in- 

 terest and rent. It would not, unless private 

 property of every kind and degree were 

 done away with, and it is not proposed to go 

 so far as that. The fee of consumable 

 property, residences and their furniture, 

 pleasure grounds, personal libraries, kits of 

 tools, clothing and so on the fee, in a word, 

 of all property which is no longer capital 



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