However, because nearly all of the small farm owners of today were those very sharecroppers of earlier years, the experience of their overnight change from tenants to owners now causes them to worry that if they rent out their lands, it may eventually become the possession of the new tillers.
只是，今日的小地主，幾乎都是當年的佃農，反客為主的經驗，使他們擔心今天若將地出租，「耕者」易人，是否「其田」也會成為他人所「有」。