Fortunes for Farmers 



work to their men by the piece. It will pay 

 them. 



Finally there will be a complete revolution 

 achieved by the extension of agricultural 

 machinery. The large farmer is going to use 

 more machines, for labourers will become more 

 expensive (good times will make them unfit for 

 the old dull slavery), and as in America machines 

 will increasingly take their place. There has been 

 a great change in the last 20 years. More work 

 is done to-day per acre with less labour than ever 

 before, and the process will continue. The farmer 

 of to-morrow will own complicated machines 

 that will abolish hand work, whilst steam, petrol, 

 or electricity will displace the horse, and instead 

 of the bent-backed plodding spiritless peasant 

 we shall have an alert blue-smocked engineer who 

 will receive good wages and earn them. He will 

 do the work of ten of our men and be worth a 

 hundred. 



England is a democracy, universal suffrage 

 is coming, and if the common people (by their 

 numbers) are to be our masters they must not 

 be slaves, as they were two or three generations 

 ago — they must be free men of spirit and under- 

 standing. A democracy of slaves is doomed to 

 failure. . . This, is America's trouble: she 

 imports illiterates from all over the world, gives 



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