PREFACE 



umphant Democracy, and M. Edinond Demolins's 

 Anglo-Saxon Superiority, are gratefully mentioned. 



Certain chapters of the book first appeared as 

 contributions to The Century Magazine, The Atlan- 

 tic Monthly, The Forum, and The North American 

 Review, and the author is indebted to the courtesy 

 of the editors of those magazines for the right to re- 

 produce them here. 



The acceptance which the author's work on similar 

 lines has found in American periodicals, and the fact 

 of a wider interest evidenced by translations into three 

 foreign languages, is one reason for the publication of 

 this book. But a better one is the author's convic- 

 tion that the time is ripe for the occupation of the 

 great West by the masses of our people, and his 

 earnest hope that this book will be of some value in 

 throwing light upon their pathway to homes and 

 independence. 



WILLIAM E. SMYTIIE. 



STANDISH, CALIFOHNIA, August, 1899. 



