LOOKING TO THE GREATER REPUBLIC 



chine and made it work for man rather than against 

 him. Here is a people who have organized capital so 

 that it works for the many rather than the few. 



Here is the finest flower of Anglo-Saxon civilization, 

 with personal independence and ambition still preserved 

 as the robust inspiration of all progress, but with every- 

 thing beyond the sphere of the individual firmly held 

 by associated man. 



Here are communities which have averted catastrophe 

 by adjusting old ideals to new conditions by building 

 their economic edifice on the three foundation-stones of 

 private ownership of homes and farms, co-operative 

 ownership of stores and industries, and public owner- 

 ship of public utilities. 



Instead of crowded cities festering with vice and pov- 

 erty, throughout Arid America are farms that blend into 

 beautiful towns, and towns that shade almost impercepti- 

 bly into peaceful farms. Here are country people who 

 enjoy all the advantages of town life, and townspeople 

 who know the independence of the country. Here are 

 social conditions where the entire population enjoys the 

 privileges of the club and the blessings of the public 

 library. 



Here are schools and colleges training young men and 

 women not only in the arts and sciences, but in the 

 equally valuable lessons of co-operative production and 

 administration. 



In a word, here is America, under the powerful domi- 

 nance of the ancient Saxon spirit, engaged in the con- 

 quest of its waste-places and the making of new forms 

 of civilization worthy of the race, the place, and the age. 



In this vision of the future there is nothing impracti- 



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