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ity on the part of those who favor the importation of cheap la- 

 bor, knowing as they mnst, wliat effect it will have upon the 

 honest and faithful laborers of the country. The whole object 

 of those favoring this immigration is to make money, to get 

 labor performed at a less price, to show what must be expected 

 if any objections are made to the ever increasing demands of 

 avarice. This method of oppression is the most cruel of all 

 the methods used by capital to oppress labor, and deserves to 

 receive the disapprobation of every friend of our civilization, 

 every friend of humanity. There ought not to be any surprise 

 at the abhorrence that is felt by honest Christian labor when 

 capital makes it feel the degrading and oppressive force of this 

 unnatural and cruel competition, when heathen labor is used 

 as a scourge to whip christians into humble submission to soul- 

 less corporations, and soulless capital, 



THE PUBLIC LANDS. 



The policy of the Federal government with reference to the 

 public lands must be changed at once. If this is not done 

 the worst of evils will be upon us, namely, the ownership of 

 these lands by a few corporations and capitalists. Already 

 individuals are acquiring territory, nearly, if not quite, as 

 large as some of the States of this Union, and foreign capital, 

 charmed with this splendid opportunity for profitable invest- 

 ment, and for power, is buying up these lands, to hold for 

 speculative purposes, to the oppression of the actual settler. 

 The government ought not to sell land to any but actual 

 settlers, and then only in quantities not exceeding the limits 

 of a reasonable farm for a householder. No corporation 

 ought to be allowed to purchase, or otherwise to acquire lands, 

 except for its actual needs in the conducting of its business, 



