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u Not these, not these—by Heaven! 
But to those who labor for God and man; 
Who work their part in the world’s great plan; 
Who plant good seed in the desert’s dearth, 
Who bring forth treasures from brave old Earth; 
To these the soil is given; 
To these, to these—by Heaven! 
“ To these must the soil belong; 
To the men of all climes whose souls are true— 
Or Pagan, or Christian, or Turk, or Jew; 
To the men who will hollow our glorious soil— 
The millions who hope and the millions who toil 
For the right against the wrong; 
To these shall the soil be given— 
To these, to these—by Heaven! ” 
Mr. G. E. Morrow said the question involved in the paper just 
read was too big a question for him to attack without time for more 
thought on the subject, but he called upon President John Bascom 
of the State University, who was present, to favor the convention 
with his views on the subject. 
President Bascom said: Before I enter upon this discussion I 
wish to say something with reference to the remarks of Mr. War¬ 
ner. I owned the farm for six years, hut I was engaged all the 
time in other business and could not go out to it more than once or 
twice a week. I worked it as it were at the .tip of my fingers, 
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and I found that I could not work that farm by paying day labor, 
hut I did manage it even under those disadvantages for six 
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years and realized my six per cent, on it, which was what I had to 
pay for the money. Now, in relation to interest. 
In the views advanced in this paper I think Mr. Field is sincere 
and philanthropic. If there is a division between capital and labor I 
shall certainly take my stand with the laborers, and what I say will be 
in behalf of the laborers, so far as I say it in behalf of any one class, 
although I do not believe that there is any possibility of the ulti¬ 
mate and successful separation of these two partners, capital and 
labor. 
Now, I must deny Mr. Field’s fundamental proposition, that 
money differs essentially from other commodities. I believe it does 
not. I think, therefore, it is to be regarded as other commodities 
