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Show "From Individualism to Cen-t Cen-t r a 1 i z a t i o n." Men used to feel tliatwhcn the) got tired working for some one else for boaid and clothes they could go West, settle on a quarter section of land -omow here, and grow up with the country. Whatever else we lacked, nc had plenty of land. Down to llfty yeais ago we weie largely pioduccrs of law material. On the faun In the West thc"hlicd man" generally became a landowner. Outside the more thickly settled centers the chief artisanswcrenilllcis, blacksmiths, carpenters and cobblers, while art and the piofesslons were leprcsentcd by the village tlddlei, the paison, the doctor, and :ui occasional lawyer. There weie log rollings, bain raisings, rais-ings, corn husklngs, and (uilltlngbees, l and people weie gauged by what they were rather than by what they owned. own-ed. Then raihoads came along, built by the grant of alternate sections of land, and social distinctions began to creep In, cxpiesscd In terms of money. Men moved Into new houses out of old ones built by their neighbors In the earlier days of mutual helpfulness. In the graveyard some people's tombstones began to bo better than others, vhllc down at the grocery some folks began to talk about the money power. |