The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the 'Dust and Ashes Act,' any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.
Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.