How, then, to heal the anti-capitalistic cancer of the colonies? If
 men were willing, at a blow, to turn all the soil from public into private
 property, they would destroy certainly the root of the evil, but also —
 the colonies. The trick is how to kill two birds with one stone. Let the
 Government put upon the virgin soil an artificial price, independent of
 the law of supply and demand, a price that compels the immigrant to work
 a long time for wages before he can earn enough money to buy land, and
 turn himself into an independent peasant.[20] The fund
 resulting from the sale of land at a price relatively prohibitory for the
 wage-workers, this fund of money extorted from the wages of labour by violation
 of the sacred law of supply and demand, the Government is to employ, on
 the other hand, in proportion as it grows; to import have-nothings from
 Europe into the colonies, and thus keep the wage labour market full for
 the capitalists. Under these circumstances, tout sera pour le mieux dans
 le meilleur des mondes possibles. This is the great secret of “systematic
 colonisation.” By this plan, Wakefield cries in triumph, “the supply of
 labour must be constant and regular, because, first, as no labourer
 would be able to procure land until he had worked for money, all immigrant
 labourers, working for a time for wages and in combination, would produce
 capital for the employment of more labourers; secondly, because every labourer
 who left off working for wages and became a landowner would, by purchasing
 land, provide a fund for bringing fresh labour to the colony.” [21]
 The price of the soil imposed by the State must, of course, be a “sufficient
 price” — i.e., so high “as to prevent the labourers from becoming
 independent landowners until others had followed to take their place.” 
 [22] This “sufficient price for the land” is nothing
 but a euphemistic circumlocution for the ransom which the labourer pays
 to the capitalist for leave to retire from the wage labour market to the
 land. First, he must create for the capitalist “capital,” with which the
 latter may be able to exploit more labourers; then he must place, at his
 own expense, a locum tenens [placeholder] on the labour market, whom the Government
 forwards across the sea for the benefit of his old master, the capitalist.