If it is to have the fat meat in its pudding, on what principle can it free itself from responsibility for the lean? - Joel Benton

The effort to make things equal is a problem too great for any but angels and seraphs to deal with. No merely human device can touch it without breaking or deranging the mainspring of civilization.

Sea-like in billowy distance, far away </br> The half-broke prairies stretch on every hand; </br> How wide the circuit of their summer day— </br> What measureless acres of primeval land, </br> Treeless and birdless, by no eyesight spanned!

The only "protection" they ever were in need of is protection from dogs and tariff-mongers.