Show THE SOIL AND THE iEOPLE henry George told the clever joung woman who interrogated him the other evening upon his land theories that land is tho only thing which grows in value on account of the growth of the community and hence the community should get the advantage of Ihe increased value The price of land like everything produced for sale is governed by the law of supply and demand Mr George likewise told the young ladies who asked him Would not the doing away with private ownership in land do away also with the reverence and love of home 1 that only four per cent of the people of New York own their homes That may be true of New York and yet true it is as of no other people that we are a nation of freeholders amour am-our Government is a great landed Democracy And in the nature of things tho owners of tho soil must govern the country in tho absence of great military establishments establish-ments The security of our free system of popular government lies in the wide participation of the people in the ownership owner-ship of the soil We can boast ourselves a nation of sovereigns only so long as wo remain a nation of freeholders |