This is seen clearly by the effects which trade in land produces, for the methods by which land is held and treated will alter the character of a people as well as change the face of a country. The thrifty farms of New England help to create a sturdy, self-respecting people, whilst the Bonanza machine-managed land monopolies of the West create luxurious absentees and permanent paupers or tramps. Extensive enclosure of hills and commons will destroy the country tastes and habits of generations, whose walks are confined to dusty high roads, and the destruction of a hamlet fills the slums of a city. So the Custom-houses and protective tariffs which municipalities create within their limits, hamper productive industry and help to produce paupers. Even such a modern practice as bicycling has created an extensive trade, with dress and habits and various arrangements, all acting and reacting on the life of the younger generation. Whatever becomes an article of trade, will become at once subject to the methods and regulations of trade, with the ever-widening circle of effects which belong to all industrial action. Every civilized nation is compelled to cope with the most difficult of all social problems--viz., sexual evil--and the great modern development of benevolence and reform has created a new force endeavouring to solve the same problem. The most varied methods of action have been called forth. Religion and morality, physiology and expediency, pity and severity, have all been invoked in turn to rescue the fallen and to restrain the vicious. But the subject of ordinary immorality as a trade necessity, governed by the economic laws which regulate trade, has not been seriously examined in the light of political economy, nor has the inevitable effect which trade in women must exercise on the character of a nation, been clearly shown. There is widespread mental evasion or unconscious hypocrisy on this subject. So many wrongs in our social state require to be dealt with, that reformers willingly avoid the painful consideration of sexual evil. Hope is felt that some of the great reforms of the day, in which all thoughtful individuals take a special interest, will prove fundamental in their curative effects, and heal this gravest of our diseases. Thus free access to land, co-operation and abolition of interest, total abstinence, universal suffrage, emigration, arbitration, State-socialism, etc., are all amongst the popular panaceas of the present day, each important reform or theory being chiefly relied on by its special advocates, to change all social relations and eradicate any serious social disorder.