The state furnishes no machinery for arriving at justice. Even if it were possible under any circumstances to judge, and even though men were really criminals, the state has no way of arriving at the facts. If the state pretends to administer justice this should be its highest concern. It should not be interested in convicting men or punishing crime, but administering justice between men. It is obvious to the most casual observer that the state furnishes no machinery to accomplish this result.

Sentimental and humane thoughts and purposes are often, perhaps generally, based on real life, and have a natural reason for their being. To “turn the other cheek” or to “resist not evil” may seem at first glance to have no support in the facts of life, but after all that which makes for a higher humanity, a longer life, and a more vigorous community, is the true philosophy. To use violence and force upon the vicious and the weak must produce the evil that it gives. Like produces like.

——by Jeff Riggenbach——

Clarence Darrow is best known today as the Chicago lawyer who defended John T. Scopes in the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925. A character based loosely on him is played by Spencer Tracy in the 1960 movie version of the classic play about the Scopes trial, Inherit the Wind.

INDEX

America, military, 5

Army, see Military

Bravery, 81

Bureaucracy, in civil government, 15

Cattle, effects of prosperity on, 65

Charity, and judgment, 58

Children, love and development, 78

Christianity, the military and, 5

Civil government, 15–19

Civil law, safety and mob law, 80

Crime

causes of, 33–39, 41

THE
GREAT AMERICAN
LAND BUBBLE

ROBERT MORRIS—PATRIOT AND FINANCIER
AMERICA’S FOREMOST LAND BOOMER

The
GREAT AMERICAN
LAND BUBBLE

The Amazing Story of
Land-Grabbing, Speculations, and Booms
from Colonial Days to
the Present Time

by

A. M. SAKOLSKI

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF FINANCE
COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
1932

Reprinted with the permission of Harper & Row

THE GREAT
AMERICAN LAND BUBBLE

Copyright, 1932, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the U. S. A.
FIRST EDITION
I-G

History of American Economy: Studies and Materials for Study

A series of reprints of the important studies
and source books relating to the growth of the
American economic system.

General Editor: William N. Parker

LAND speculation in the United States has been a national business. Yet no history of it has hitherto been written—and small wonder! Pecuniary speculation has ever been looked upon as a dubious business. It therefore has been conducted largely in secret and without enduring records. Arduous research is required by those who delve into its intricate dealings. From time to time, however, an historian or research student has given to the public intimate or fragmentary accounts of isolated episodes relating directly or indirectly to American land speculation.