THE CALL OF THE LAND 



these the lawlessness of ignorant immi- 

 grants. Not at all. Head and front of all 

 our dangers in this kind is the apathy among 

 our best people toward social and political 

 obligations. We need an intenser spirit of 

 co-operation in everything that concerns our 

 united life. Public jobs, intended to rob 

 us all, we, of course, reprobate. But there 

 is a narrow spirit in conducting legitimate 

 business which desperately hinders the pub- 

 lic good. Trades unions often plan to 

 advantage their members, utterly regardless 

 of the community's weal. Too few are the 

 men and women willing to engage in the 

 necessary general work for which money or 

 political preferment does not and cannot 

 pay. It is a shame that so many of our 

 fellow-citizens shirk jury duty, for instance, 

 often adding insult to injury by ridiculing 

 the jury system. Can people who cheat the 

 assessor or the tax collector remember that 

 widows, orphans, and the poor are sure to 

 suffer from their fraud? 



Unmeasured time and toil have to be 

 spent by many, wholly without pecuniary 



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