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capital the sheriff will get him. If he doesn't 

 pay his labor, his men will garnishee him. If 

 he doesn't pay his taxes, he will be advertised. 

 The only privilege land has given him is 

 to expend his labor. The only privilege 

 labor has given him is to draw on his bank 

 account. 



"And you are in the same boat that I am!" 

 cried Jeremiah to Farmer Jones. 



"Wait a minute," says Neighbor Jones. 

 "Why should I pay interest or rent, as you 

 call it on my land? It didn't cost me one 

 hundred and fifty dollars an acre. I in- 

 herited it from my father. The Government 

 caught him when he wasn't looking and made 

 him a present of it. And what have wages 

 got to do with me?" asks Farmer Jones. "I 

 have two sons and a daughter and wife. I 

 pay them their salt. And we have just bought 

 a new six-cylinder sixty." 



"Isn't your time worth anything?" asked 

 Jeremiah. 



"It's my own time, isn't it?" demanded 

 Farmer Jones. "I can do what I please with 

 it." 



"If you sold your land and invested the 

 cash in a factory to make biscuits or buttons 



