HOW ONE MAN CAME TO WRECK 



tragic absurdity because the land did not 

 and could not produce 14 per cent. When 

 I saw him, years after all these things had 

 happened, he had still preserved the glowing 

 advertisement that first drew his attention 

 to North Dakota. It was of a land agent 

 and held out a marvelous lure. "I think the 

 idea is to keep the soil under cultivation," 

 he said, "but make sure that nobody gets 

 any of the profits outside of the Chamber of 

 Commerce." He was voicing the growing con- 

 viction of hundreds of thousands of farmers 

 facing irreducible facts. 



