That is all there is to this word, whether it is our private affairs or
those of the nation that are being considered.

If we live up to our laws, and yet want and privation exist while there
is more than sufficient for all, then the fault must, be in those laws.

Making a scapegoat of the foreigner for those conditions because he will
not buy our wheat, or use a metal that we have an overplus of, places us
side by side with the witch-burner of old. We are just as ignorant in
one way, as he was in another.

At his door who has been writing on this subject does the blame of this
universal ignorance of it belong. He takes up this plain, simple
subject, and becomes an intellectual aristocrat and a snob of
exclusiveness from that time on, and, like the aristocrat of wealth,
will have nothing further to do with the common people, cutting off all
former connections by turning out a mass of intellectual mud that, only
leisure and education can penetrate. And dear to him is the dignity of
bulk, the dignity of paunch, using, as he does, twenty words where three
would do better work. The living and the dead if his species are alike
in this hunt for the "Absolutely Pure" to puff out their little dough.

Dissecting "Co-operation," the writer of Progress and Poverty must drag
the poor remains through over 800 words - almost enough to bury the
single tax theory itself. Co-operation means getting rid of the
middleman. With organized labor it, means keeping out all whose
admittance would cause a surplus of labor among those who have organized
to prevent that as well as injustice by the employer. But what has
become of that middleman and black-balled laborer? One is ruined and