. The up-to-date primer : a first book of lessons for little political economists ; in words of one syllable with pictures. l^X^ LESSON XLVIL Men Land No Want Needs More Work Plow Alms The good Man who was at the Head of aToAvn in the West saw a great lot of Menwho had no Work and were so Poor they hadto Live on Alms. At the same time he saw aGreat Deal of Land near by that was not inUse. So lie got Leave of Those who Held theDeeds of the Land to let some of the PoorUse it, and then lie Gave them Spuds and setthem to AVork. You ask, How did it Turnout ? Why, each of the Men who got the Useof a
. The up-to-date primer : a first book of lessons for little political economists ; in words of one syllable with pictures. l^X^ LESSON XLVIL Men Land No Want Needs More Work Plow Alms The good Man who was at the Head of aToAvn in the West saw a great lot of Menwho had no Work and were so Poor they hadto Live on Alms. At the same time he saw aGreat Deal of Land near by that was not inUse. So lie got Leave of Those who Held theDeeds of the Land to let some of the PoorUse it, and then lie Gave them Spuds and setthem to AVork. You ask, How did it Turnout ? Why, each of the Men who got the Useof a Lot got so much of a Crop for his Toilthat he had no Need to ask for Aid from tl»eTown. Give Toil the Use of Land and that isall you need Do. But did not the Laud Lord^^help ? Oh, yes. Much! They Got Out of theWay. The One-Tax Plan would make LandFree to Toil. 51. LESSON XLVIIL Work Steam Wild The All Men Thing Wrong Wise What have we Here ? Are these Wild Men? They Look like it, do they uot? Theywere once Men who had come up to a HighState of Life, up to the Point where AVe arenow in this good Age and Land. But theyfound that Things got in to such a Fix somehow that there was not Bread for All, andWork could not be Found for those who wereOut of Work. Then they saw what a BadThing Steam was, and all the Means that wereused in Mills, and so forth, to save Toil; sothey went to Work and broke up all the Beltsand Wheels so that all Work must be doneby Hand. And in this way, by Force of theTruth they now Saw, they were led Back, stepby stej), to the State in wliich Man was inwhat we call the Daik Age; in Short, theywere once more Wild i\Ien of the Woods. 52
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