Excerpt from Social Struggles: The Fundamental Facts and Principles Relative to Values, Prices, Money and Interest, National Banks, Franchises, the Silver Question, Socialism, Capital and Labor, and Business Derangement

From the foregoing premises is deduced the statement that private ownership of a piece Of land, no matter how small its size, is an infringement of the natural right of every person to be and remain a common owner of all the land, and that any person who pretends to such ownership by virtue Of any claim or title whatsoever, and forcibly maintains such pretense, commits an act as criminal as he that forcibly enslaves his fellow-man. One is a robber of land, the other a robber of personal liberty. It is also held that the aforesaid natural right in the common ownership of land is an inalienable one, that no matter what written deed or covenant a person may solemnly Sign, he and his descendants and all his fellow-beings still Of right remain the joint owners of all the land in the State precisely the same as if no such pretended and fraudulent sale Of land had been made.

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