The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine
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Moneybags in the front pew has got a strangle hold on the parson.
Begging your pardon, Mifflin. We know you're not that kind." Marchant won the floor again. "Here's the nub of it. A man's a slave so long as his means of livelihood is dependent on some other man. I don't care whether it's lands or railroads or mines. Abolish private property and you abolish poverty." They were all at it again, like dogs at a bone. Across the Babel James caught Jeff's gay grin at him. By sheer weight Dickinson's voice boomed out of the medley. ". . . just as Henry George says: 'Private ownership of land is the nether mill-stone. Material progress is the upper mill-stone. Between them, with an increasing pressure, the working classes are being ground.' We're just beginning to see the effect of private property in land. Within a few years. . . ." "What we need is to get back to Democracy. Individualism has run wild. . . ." "Trouble is we can't get anywhere under the Constitution. Every time we make a move--check. It was adopted by aristocrats to hold back the people and that's what it's done. Law--" Apparently nobody got a chance to finish his argument. The Polish Jew broke in sharply. "Law! There iss no law." "Plenty of it, Sobieski, Go out on the streets and preach your |
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