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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Nov 30, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 47.

Back to the Land.

The Orange Judd Farmer of October 22 tells us that there is a tremendous “land hunger” taking possession of many in our cities. A real exodus from the cities is setting in. It finds as cause of this latter years of prosperity in agriculture, increasing price of land, and its growing scarcity. The editor thinks that “land values in the country districts will probably never be less.” And yet too great an exodus to the country as it is now taking form, may not be the best for the country. It is carrying the pleasures and the vices of the city into the country, and rendering the country life abnormal and unhealthful, and the cities are fast filling with a foreign element manipulated by the corruptest of politicians.