want has brutalized them until they see no way but the brute's way of
saving themselves, then place the horror of it all at the doors of
incompetence and grasping greed where it belongs.

It is a plain word. As plain as are the conditions under which we are
now living. As plain as is the wide-spread want and hunger that is in
this land to-day, while there is more than enough for all.

And those who have gained possession of our resources are responsible
for this hunger, and are enemies just as much as if they were invaders.
Whatever progress external foes could make in landing on these shores
would be only temporary, and not a blow could they strike, or a step
make, without our knowing it. Not so the millionaire. His is the work of
the thief in the night and we know nothing till his work is done. And
then, because we would resort to the same process of recovery that we
would in the case of any common enemy, we hold back, forsooth, because
that process is called Confiscation.

Those whom we find to be inimical to the life of the republic will look
upon an anarchist as a cooing dove compared to the man who would
advocate Confiscation. They have nothing to fear from the anarchist,
except a stray bomb now and then, for they know full well that the
"plain" people will always stand between them and that wild-eyed dreamer
of the impractical.

What those favored people think, however, does not interest us. What is
of more concern to us, and to all others who have no doubt but what
there is something wrong in the present scheme of things, is that the
doctrine of Confiscation should be first understood before it is
rejected. If it is found to conflict with law and order; if it is found