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CHAPTER XVIII.

GRADUAL RESUMPTION OF PUBLIC LANDS BY THE STATE.

Necessity of Agrarian Reform—Crown Lands, Church Lands, and Corporation
Lands to be immediately resumed, and their Rent applied to the relief of
Taxation—The Rich have no right to meddle with them—Needed by the
exploited Millions, as a Fulcrum to raise them from the Earth 115


CHAPTER XIX.

NATIONAL DEBT A MORTGAGE ON REALISED PROPERTY.

Necessity for Adjustment of Public and Private Debts—Their overwhelming
Burden must result in Civil War—Third Resolution the only Remedy—Opinion
of Cobbett—Enormous Increase of Debt through Improvements in
Manufactures—Only just Claims of Public and Private Creditors.


CHAPTER XX.

NATIONAL LANDS AND CREDIT FOR THE USE OF THE PEOPLE.

Unjust Laws to enable the Few to deprive the Working Class of their Earnings—Private
Property in Land the Basis of Wages-Slavery—Raw Materials of
Wealth belong to all—Land and Money Lords govern the World—Right
of Working Class to the Use of Credit—Surplus of Earnings of Working
Class beyond Consumption the Source of all Capital 126


CHAPTER XXI.

NATIONAL SYSTEM OF CURRENCY AND EXCHANGE REQUIRED.

Inadequacy and Absurdity of present Medium of Exchange—Necessity of new
National Currency for the Home Trade—Example from Iron Currency of
Sparta—Labour Notes of Guernsey—Gold and Silver mere Commodities—All
four Reforms must be combined 134


CHAPTER XXII.

EVIL OF MONOPOLIES AND EXPLOITATION OF INDUSTRIES.

False principle of Law-made Property—Absurdity of Funding System and
Borrowing from Investors—Evil of Public Works in hands of Profit-*mongers
and Speculators—Rapacity of Predatory Classes—Efforts of
Robespierre to abolish their nefarious System—his legal Assassination in
consequence—All the evils of Society the work of Landlords and Profit-*mongers 143