THE CONCLUSION. 



The first step towards a remedy for the decline of 

 American agriculture, and an escape from the dangers 

 it foreshadows, must be in a proper and more general 

 realization of the imperative necessity for a larger propor- 

 tion of the people to be engaged in tilling the soil than at 

 present ; a realization that agriculture must be made 

 prosperous, and rank first among the great industries. 



A further step may be taken in the farmers of America 

 making themselves a political force, uniting for this pur- 

 pose, and securing, wherever and whenever possible, the 

 return of an intelligent farmer to Parliament ; then, in 

 the legislative halls bending their energies, not to further 

 the schemes of the communist, nor those of the socialist, 

 but the projects of the true social reformer- — not seeking 

 more laws, but better laws, and the liberty of a true 

 equality. Buckle was no doubt correct in his remark : 

 " The best laws which have been passed have been those 

 by which some former laws were repealed." 



We can abolish all laws which tend to engender 

 national strife, the destructive results of which must be 

 borne by our toiling people ; all laws which are barriers 

 between supply and demand, preventing production — that 

 is, man's labor — from enjoying its natural and true value ; 

 all laws which tend to prevent the reduction of taxes 

 to the actual needs of the government, and the reduction 



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