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Rh that you will hear the same person who would vehemently denounce a landlord for insisting on a rack rent, detail with complacency the enormous sums of money which this or that person has obtained for his tenant right, from some ill-advised successor to his farm, whom he has skinned by the process, and left stranded for life on the barren acres: Yet it is in the prosperity of this latter individual, on whose solvency the proper cultivation of the land will depend, rather than in that of the outgoing; tenant, that both the landlord and the community is interested.

From the foregoing considerations it is apparent that competition is an irrepressible force: that if stifled in one direction, it will burst out in another;