MONEY

Tke mtgÊmÊCBt stated hère in gênerai terms is j|ipBed bj' Caipentcr to tlie question of landommec^àp, wkîdi, as enry sodal reformer knows, is Ike cncÊd poifaleni, die point (m which the loots of ewerj «idicr social pioUem converge.

Ouiw Hiat loves its land and

;) is tlie lomidatîan-cleinent of pafalic idatÎGn tofiiat is false. ail

Xoch of tlie hnd of tfais coontry is held by légal ovnerdiqi, aod ts not truly owned by the man «faose rig|its to it coold be vindicated by law. The tme owner of land is he who works on it, continoally tlnnks how he can do justice to it. spends thoo^^t and affection upon it, grieves vhen he sees it nq^^ected ot ninning to waste. The kgal owner is he

even tlie boundanes of that which aad fedîQg no wanning of tiie heart toisaids it to aake it bcmUIul and fnntfal, thinks only of advantis^ ke can gain tom it*

To wofk npcxi the land is commonly r^arded as a borden and a dégradation, and those who gain their fivdîhood by this primai and gracious tofl are disowned and despised by such as subsist iqpon their laboor. Into such a condition has the matter now corne, that the countryside is being sloidy depqpulated, depleted of its most vigorous

» r. i>.. p. 390. • EngUttuTs Idéal, p. 140.