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to be called here, as in America, Canada, 

 Denmark, and Sweden, and other countries, 

 *' land hogs." 



" ' This ownership by the few of the land 

 of the many makes for monopoly and special 

 privilege in more directions than at first would 

 seem possible. 



" ' Perhaps my special scheme has been 

 quickened in its failure by my inability to give 

 it the personal attention that such an under- 

 taking would seem to deserve. While I frankly 

 acknowledge this, it is in no sense the principal 

 cause of failure, if failure it may be called. 



^^ Not Complete Failure. 



" * It was by no means a complete failure, for 

 scores of men and women have been trained 

 to country life, but it simply has not oeen a 

 commercial success. 



" ' Perhaps the distance from market — fifty 

 miles from London and over three miles from 

 the railway station — had something to do with 

 this, and yet these are only minor objections, 

 and would be easily overcome under free con- 

 ditions. 



*' ' Not being a farmer, I cannot say under 

 present conditions how commercial success 

 could be obtained. 15ut I do know that if the 

 present taxation upon labour, machinery, and 

 Ijuildings were lifted, as it will be, and placed 

 upon land values, where it belongs, monopolists 

 and other idle persons such as myself would 



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