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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
 
 
 
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