ecome more and more inevitable.

"This means that there is no necessity at all to appeal to
violence, to use constraint and power in order to inaugurate in the
domain of rural production, the only mode of ownership fit to
utilize the new technical agricultural tools: collective ownership.

"On the other hand, a new form of ownership cannot be imposed; it
is the new form of ownership which is imposing itself.

"It is in vain that they use the most powerful, the most
artificial, means to develop, to multiply, and animate the private
ownership of the land; the social ownership of the land will impose
itself, through the force of events, on the most stubborn, on the
most obstinate, of the partisans of individual ownership of the
rural domain."

The French Socialists do not propose to interfere with titles of any but
very large properties, or even with inheritance. Whether they have to
meet government ownership and 33-year leases now being tried on a small
scale in New Zealand, or whether a capitalist collectivist government
allows agricultural evolution and land titles to take their natural
course, they expect to corner the labor supply, and in this way
ultimately to urge agriculture along in the Socialist direction. From
the moment they have done this, they expect a steady tendency on the
part of agriculturists to look forward, as the workingmen have done, to
the Socialist State:--

"The question arises, under a Socialist regime, will small
property, the property cultivated by the owner and his family, be
transmissible, allowed to be sold, or left as inheritance to the
children, to the nephews, and even to very remote cousins? From the
moment this property is not used as an instrument of
exploitation--and in a Socialist society, _labor not being sold_,
it could never become one--what do we care whether it changes hands
every morning, whether it travels around through a whole family or
country?"

For, since the Socialist State will furnish work for all that apply, at
the best remuneration, and under the best conditions, especially as it
will do this in its own agricultural enterprises, relatively few farmers
will be able to pay enough to secure other workers than those of their
own families.

In the United States the Party has definitely decided by a large
majority, in a referendum vote, that it does not in