Does he think I am going to be a party to the putting of the people's neck again under their pitiless yoke ?" "But the people are more powerful now," argued Joan.

"If the farmer demanded higher prices, they could demand higher wages." "They would never overtake the farmer," he answered, with a laugh.

"And the last word would always be with him.

I am out to get rid of the landlords," he continued, "not to establish them as the permanent rulers of the country, as they are in Germany.

The people are more powerful--just a little, because they are no longer dependent on the land.