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home with family, forest and animals about him. The daily
paper and the radio hardly suffice. The idea that the
ownership of a stretch of land makes one free and even
aristocratic hardly exists anywhere. For a thousand years
ownership of land was title to distinction. And since
half the people of United States and three-fourths of
those of Germany live in the city, most of whom would
rather beg their bread on the streets than earn it on the
land, President Roosevelt and Chancellor Hitler have a
second and basic hostile force to deal with. There is no
more free land and few people would take it if there were.
Of equal importance is the strange practice of
all nations in barring their gates against immigrants and
foreign goods. One of the causes of this attitude these
last decades is the natural jealousy of organized labor
everywhere, especially in the United States. The leaders
of organized workers think of applying the same privelage
for themselves and their supporters that the directors of
great corporations have demanded for themselves- monopolies
of the profits of the greater industries. Organized labor
demands a dollar an hour for urban workers, while its
leaders are quite content that the country worker recieves
only a dollar a day.
This demand of organized labor, supported by
organized business, has resulted in industrial states clos-
ing their doors to immigrants and to outside goods. These
working people forget that immigrants from all the more
advanced nations invariably take their savings with them,
put these savings to work in the new country and thus help