I fear that it will be seen soon enough that when you have destroyed the very foundations of security and hope upon which labor has rested so long, the old-time repose and peaceful order will be no more.

Gentlemen should not forget that the wrong that has been done to laboring men and their children by giving over their natural inheritance to an accursed monopoly will in due time be considered by the most intelligent body of laboring men who ever debated a public wrong--men fully aware of their rights and capable of asserting them.
But the foreign land-shark, and the corporate land-shark, dwindle into insignificance by the side of the individual land-shark.

Every hamlet, town, city, and state in the Union is in the grasp of the individual land holder.

Starting with his fellows as a pioneer two hundred and fifty years ago, with his pickaxe on his shoulder, he has steadily grown in size and importance, so that today he holds in his hands the destinies of the Republic and the life of his fellow citizens.

His bulk has become mastodonian in proportions and his influence has shrivelled up the energies of the people.