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ing. Horace Greeley recognized it when lie 

 said : i ' The one great error that misleads and 

 corrupts mankind is the presumption that some- 

 thing may be had for nothing . . . the law that 

 requires each to pay for all he gets and reap 

 only where he has sown . . . will not submit to 

 defiance or evasion." 



The farmer whose system of farming gives 

 him profitable work for only half of the year 

 will receive pay for only the time spent in toil. 

 Not alone is his labor wage reduced thereby, 

 but the capital invested in the business is not re- 

 turning its full value, for the wheels of the 

 farm machine are not revolving. 



The machines in the factory working with 

 three shifts of men are never idle. The incom- 

 ing shift stands behind the departing one and, 

 at a signal, the men change places. The ma- 

 chines run steadily on and turn out their special 

 products in an unceasing stream. 



The average horse on a Northern farm works 

 only three hours a day, and the average farmer 

 probably works less than two hundred days a 

 year. No factory in the world could survive un- 



