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destroys equal opportunity; a man better be owned than free 

 M'itb no laud. It is, moreover, in the highest degree criminal; 

 it not only destroys human life, but denies the right of 

 existence; for if the land can be sold, it can be entirely owned 

 by one man. 



Incompatible loith Use. — Price on land, not only debars many 

 from gaining possession, but having got possession, its use for 

 living purposes, is in no way enhanced by having a price, on 

 tlie contrary, the less the price the better. 



Price cancels Price. — Nor is one benefited when he comes 

 to sell, for he has to pay back again just what he gets. It 

 is supposable that all must have somewhere to stay, and 

 since one lot is only worth another, similarly situated, what 

 matters it whether we get Si. or §1000. a foot? And even if 

 one has a small income from rent, it is more than counterbal 

 ancedby the rent paid out again in the enhanced cost of living- 

 Society, then, gains no wealth from price on land. It is as 

 great a delusion as the belief, once prevailing, that only the 

 precious metals were wealth. 



Rise in Peal Estate. — In America, immigration assists the 

 'boom' by reason of the desirability in new association. But 

 to put a price u])on this, is to sell one's self! Profiting by such 

 a boom necessitates an endless march towards barbarism! 

 The human race cannot always keep going "West! Finally it 

 will bring up where it started. The ebb and flow neutralize, 

 producing a calm. There is no longer any rise. And as soon 

 as the people find themselves paying the old selling price, they 

 come to their senses only to find themselves loaded up with 

 vahies representing nothing! Only a few capitalists, a few 

 drones, the first denizens of this frog pond or that sheep pas- 

 ture, now called Boston, New York and Chicago, who by 

 sijuatting in labor's hive, profit by the rise in real estate. 



The Pexults of Landlordism are antagonism, waste, dilajji- 

 (lation, s(piah)r, disease, conflagrations, poverty and crime. It 

 is an lieirlooni of war and shiverv. It does not guarantee an 

 cfjual sliare of what land the people want to use, but, until the 

 pound of flesh is \),xu\, prevents its use. In New York, it once 

 took five acres of ground to supj)ort one German gardener, 

 and tiiat by hard work. Now, the 'unearned increment' of this 



