We have been conditioned to believe that the solution to all of our problems comes from the top down, but I believe that the answer to many of our problems can be solved with a cottage industry approach. If we can truly understand and implement the principle of liberty, a lot of our problems will resolve themselves.
Success is the Iceberg. We can see the fruits of the labor, but we rarely see the work that goes into its attainment. We typically only see the reward of the harvest, the plowing, sowing, watering, and weeding are done when no one is watching. The stadium does not fill to watch wind sprints. But that is where success is cultivated.
The new deal was that the Planters would work six days a week for seven years and the result of all six days labor would go to Weston and at the end of seven years the Adventures would own half of the Planters property. They would produce in a common field and at the end of the season they would evenly split what they produced after paying their debt. They were virtually indentured servants. They excepted the deal because they were back in England and had they stayed they would be put in prison. They were forced into a communal existence that they knew would not work.
When they landed on the tip of Cape Cod they had run out of food. The men looked around the area and found a stash of corn buried in the ground by the Indians and they took it. They did not steal the corn, they borrowed it. They paid it back later. Had they not taken the corn they never
would have survived. By the end of the first winter they were doling out a quarter pound of corn bread per person per day to survive on. As you can imagine, the mothers took their bread and fed their children. They covered their children's bodies with their own to keep them warm. of the eighteen married women that came on the Mayflower, fourteen died the first winter.
They sacrificed themselves for their children knowing that if the children did not survive, they would not survive. In Plymouth we have a monument honoring the eighteen married women that came on the Mayflower. On the back of the monument it is written;
"They brought up their families in sturdy virtue and a living faith in God without which nations perish."
