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conditions. There remain no continents to ex- 

 plore; the opportunities which were distinctively 

 American, cannot recur. Democracy moves ever 

 towards the goal of fixidity of privilege, because it 

 moves toward equality. 



Fruit-growing is one of the opportunities of the 

 present, as was the conquest of Mexico by Cortes 

 and his band in the past. Specialization always 

 means an opportunity for labor as well as for capital. 

 In a new specialty wages are always high. They 

 are high to-day in horticulture. So long as fruit 

 sells for good prices, the ''labor question,'* as the 

 phrase goes, will not embarrass the fruit-farm. 

 Break and scatter the fruit-market and wages on 

 fruit-farms must fall. Strengthen the market; 

 establish the fruit-eating clientele; get all our 

 people to consimie many times their present 

 consumption of fruit, and wages on fruit-farms will 

 rise. The wage problem on the fruit-farm is the 

 problem of supply and demand; of expert service 

 and of unskilled labor; of widening or decaying 

 markets; of the habits of our people, whether they 

 become and remain notably a fruit-eating people. 

 The laborer is but one cog in an immense wheel; 

 he is not his own master no more than is the fruit- 

 grower. World conditions crib, cabin, and confine 

 both employer and employee. 



Facing present conditions, or the aspect of these 

 which we interpret, the prospect is of betterment. 

 As yet we have not begun to raise, much less to 

 consimie, fruit. Our climate compels us to eat 



