f the Freehold Land Movement, every county in England may be won.
To the very natural suggestion that that is a game that two can play at,
the answer is very obvious. In such a contest numbers will tell. A
qualification that may be had for 30 pounds will fall into very different
hands to what it would were its price 1,000 pounds. For one aristocratic
voter thus made, the people will have ten. An appeal to the masses can
have but one result. Human nature must be changed before it can be
otherwise. Be this as it may, the political result is undoubtedly
good--the emancipation of all who have the wit, and will, and worth to
win the franchise for themselves.

VI. THE MORAL AND SOCIAL ADVANTAGES OF THE MOVEMENT.

Anything offering a man inducement to save must be attended with
beneficial results. As society is constituted, a spendthrift is a
nuisance and a curse; the charge hitherto against the working classes of
this country has been, that they have been reckless and improvident--that
they are beggars one day and spendthrifts the next--that the money gained
with such difficulty is squandered away with a wicked wastefulness, such
as can be paralleled in no other part of the world. The English lower
orders have always been thus improvident. During the late war the
sailors, when on shore, would resort to every absurdity to get rid of
their money. Colonel Landman tells us of one who had just received prize
money to the amount of 500 pounds, and, being allowed only one week in
which to get rid of it, had, to do so more effectually, hired a carriage
and four for himself, another for his hat, and another for his cudgel, in
which style he travelled to London. A common sight at Plymouth was that
of sailors sitting on the ground breaking watches to pieces for a glass
of grog, for which they had previously paid 5 pounds each; one
hard-hearted captain having refused leave to a sailor to go on shore, the
man, in the bitterness of his disappointment, filled a pint pot with
guineas and threw them overboard, as he could not immediately derive
enjoyment from their use. It is true a great change has been effected in
this respect, and society has reaped the benefit. A man who saves money
is not a drain upon his friend; is not a dissipated man; costs society
less, and does more for it than another man. The self-imposed taxation
of the working classes has been set down by Mr. Porter at fifty millions
a-year. In reality it i