The small owner cannot afford the waste of the large one. His
income will not be so great that he can afford to waste the principal
from which it comes. As to any friction about whose turn it is to run
his timber through, it is only necessary to say that the business will
be then carried on by those who are now doing the labor, and it will be
no worse to accept wages from the man on the neighboring claim for
helping him to make lumber than it was to accept wages from the man who
was dethroned, and he will probably pay you as much as you could make
running your own logs through.
If this is not satisfactory, sell out at once to one of the many that
are waiting to buy, and go, for you will not find anything in what we
are advocating that interferes in the least with the liberty of the
individual. Some may think differently, but then they are the ones who
brought all eyes to the window to see what was going on in the street.
And as you travel on you will miss the once eager dog at the farm house
by the way, and no palsied hand will be lifting the corner of the
curtain as you are passing by, for the tramp has disappeared, and the
rare survivor and incurable will be doing it on bread and water, for he
must be a useless thing not to have drawn his last breath with his
compatriot at the other end of the scale.
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