Where once a half ton of hay might have been sufficient to tide a cow over the bad part of the winter, the Little Fellow who fences his own range of a few hundred acres is obliged to figure on two or three tons, for he must feed his herd on hay through the long months of the winter.
The ultimate consumer, of course, is the one who pays the freight and stands the cost of all this.

Hence we have the swift growth of American discontent with living conditions.

There is no longer land for free homes in America.

This is no longer a land of opportunity.

It is no longer a poor man's country.