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families in your part of [llinois who can make such 
a showing as that?” 
‘“No, I don’t think I do,” he answered. 
‘** And the second year,’ I continued, “you would 
‘have 130 acres under cultivation. With a hundred 
of this in wheat and thirty in oats, you could reason- 
ably expect 2,000 bushels of wheat, and 1,800 of 
oats, which would bring, say $2,500. Your third of 
that would be thirty-three per cent. on your $2,500 
investment, and your tenant will have added eight 
hundred or a thousand dollars to his surplus.” 
A TENANT NO LONGER. 
“ And then,” he said, ‘ he wouldn't be anybody’s 
tenant any longer.” 
‘* No,” I said, ‘“‘ and he oughtn’t to be. And there’s 
where the greatest benefit to the tenant comes in. 
He becomes a land owner himself, and soon is inde- 
pendent. There is a great deal of capital in the east 
that might be profitably invested in this way, and 
there are thousands of poor families who might be 
thus helped to good homes on these rich lands. It is 
a practical combination of labor and capital, under 
which there would be no strikes, and by which any 
sober, industrious employee can in two or three years 
become an employer himself, and the owner of agood 
farm.”’ 
THEY WANT BACKING. 
“ But why,” inquired Mr. Bright, ‘isn’t it better 
for a poor man to take a pre-emption or homestead 
