172 HEEEDITY. 



to receive the attention of philanthropy, govern- 

 mental aid to land-ownership, and repayment of the 

 loan by ten annual instalments to be secured by a 

 lien on the land and utensils. 



What I want is encouragement of land-ownership 

 as a means of relief to the pqor. Let us call back 

 the Roman Gracchi to suggest a redistribution of the 

 unemployed. 



Men in want are accumulating in our cities. There 

 are unemployed lands in the West, and there are 

 successful experiments of agricultural colonization 

 for the relief of the extremely poor. 



We have all heard the famous remark, " Go West, 

 young man ! " These labor troubles, these stretches 

 of real want, sometimes of starvation, among the 

 unemployed, ought to secure from us a sharp atten- 

 tion to what experience has demonstrated as to the 

 possibility of poor people getting a livelihood out of 

 the government lands. Horace Greeley lies at rest 

 in Greenwood Cemetery ; and the last part of his life 

 had in it, perhaps, no anxiety deeper than to con- 

 tribute something toward the solution of the question, 

 What shall be done for the unemployed ? You re- 

 member that he made a plea, in the year 1869, for land 

 to be distributed among colonies of the unemployed. 

 He finally obtained a site between Denver and 

 Cheyenne. Some twelve thousand acres were bought 

 there from railroad companies, and two thousand 

 from pre-emptors and squatters. One hundred thou- 

 sand dollars were raised from six hundred and thirty 

 persons. About one hundred and fifty dollars, and 



