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The author reflects on the result of the decision of Kansans leaders to exclude a third of Nebraska and some mountainous real estate, like Pikes Peak from its territory. He relates how the state's leaders rejected the boundary fixed by the U.S. Congress during the state convention in July, 1859, and remarks that the state passed up millions of acres of rich agricultural corn land by deciding to vote out Nebraska from its territory.

The article reflects on the implementation of the double tax on corporate profits distributed as dividends in the U.S. Double tax disregards the fact that the operation of a corporation relies on the capital belonging to its stockholders. After the profits have been subjected to a corporation income tax, the remaining dividends are again taxed as income to the individual shareholders. After individual taxes, the take-home pay of the stockholder may be less than 10 percent of the total earning.

Focuses on the eviction of landowner Lady Marjorie Garbett by the British government. Violation of the rules for good husbandry of the Ministry of Agriculture by Garbett; Auction of the property in mortgage-foreclosure proceedings; Failure of the Conservative government to change the Agriculture Act of 1947, a postwar legislation sponsored by the socialistic Liberal government.