_The Land Problem_ The ownership of land in the South is the same pernicious thing it has come to be in every civilized country in the world.

Instead of being, as it was intended to be, a blessing to the people, it is the crying curse which takes precedence of all other evils that afflict mankind.
And the cause is not far to seek.

Land is, in its very nature, the common property of the people.

Like air and water, it is one of the natural elements which inhere in man as a common right, and without which life could in no wise be sustained.

A man must have air, or he will suffocate; he must have water, or he will perish of thirst; he must have access to the soil, for upon it grow those things which nature intended for the sustentation of the physical man, and without which he cannot live.