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tern. Even Paris learned then a lesson not likely to be forgotten. 

 But the great body of the French people, even then, had little 

 sympathy with communistic doctrines, and to-day the French 

 nation, with her 5,000,000 of land-owners, is strongly the 

 other way. Here lie her strength and security. To illustrate 

 the happy influence of this wide diffusion of landed property, 

 Michelet describes a French peasant walking out of a Sunday, 

 in his clean linen and unsoiled blouse, surveying fondly his 

 little farm. His face is illumined as he thinks these acres are 

 his own, from the surface of the globe to its center, and that 

 the air is his own from the surface up to the seventh heaven. 

 He is there alone — not at work, not to keep off interlopers, but 

 solely to enjoy the feeling of ownership, and to look upon him- 

 self as a member of responsible society. Thus in all lands and 

 among all peoples, " the magic of property turns sand into 

 gold." 



In the United States there are nearly 8,000,000 farmers with 

 farms, averaging 158 acres each, besides a large number who 

 own their dwellings and house-lots. These form the grand 

 army of the Eepublic — each a volunteer, equipped and ready to 

 strike down Communism, wherever its hydra head may appear. 

 Let even the Socialistic leaders, whom Bismarck has banished, 

 once learn here to till their own acres, and they will be con- 

 verted to the true faith — of the sacred rights of property. 



