248 THE FAT OF THE LAND 
«The property will give you a net income of 
$40,000 or $50,000, and you will save $50,000 more 
when you give up whiskey and get your beer for 
less than one-fourth of what it now costs you. 
The general store at which you have always 
traded will be run in your interests, and all that 
you buy will be cheaper. The market will be a 
coéperative one, which will furnish you meat, 
fattened on your own land, at the lowest price. 
Your fruit and vegetables will come from these 
broad acres, which will be yours and will cost 
you but little. You will earn more money be- 
cause you will be sober and industrious, and your 
money will purchase more because you will deal 
without a middleman. You will be better clothed, 
better fed, and better men. Your wives will 
take new interest in life, and there will be ecar- 
pets on your floors, curtains at your windows, 
vegetables behind your cottages, and flowers in 
front of them. 
«All these things you will have with the 
money you are now earning, and at the same 
time you will be changing from the laborer to 
the capitalist. The mine gives you a profit of 
$40,000, and you save one-fourth of your wages, 
which makes $50,000 more, — $90,000 in all. What 
are you to do with this? Less than $20,000 will 
cover the interest. You will have $70,000 to pay 
on the principal. This will reduce the interest 
for the next year more than $3000. Each year 
you can do as well, and by the time the five 
