will be given up to the spider and his web, and the little garden of
flowers that the once half-starved women have made a delight will be
unknown to the worn out bread-winner, who will be the same old slave we
premised to unshackle. Better clothes surely, and his home shows what it
is to be a citizen of a republic that is a republic in fact as well as
in name; but he has only time to snatch a bite and be away again.

Will it never occur to those critics that we are here dealing with the
greatest creation of the Almighty, and of all time - civilized man; and
that we must make the conditions fit him, and not he the the conditions.

Everything he eats, wears, and uses in twelve months can be produced in
two. Why, then, should he be compelled to labor twelve months for that
which can be produced or made in one-sixth of that time? The reason is
plain. When two laborers make an exchange there is wholesale robbery
committed by the non-producing and idle parasites, while the fruits of
Labor are on the way to those who alone are entitled to the whole. "And
I," says the millionaire, "say this robbery must go on, for I am an
impossibility without it." That gnawing canker never had any doubts as
to where his surfeit comes from. And now that it has become a question
of life and death with those he has been plundering, he should be
dragged to the bar of justice and compelled to disgorge. And then labor,
too, can come in on the eight and nine o'clock train, and be no later
for its work than is the banker and the rest of his class that have had
Labor under their heels so long.

The capacity of the modern world to produce has entirely outstripped her
capacity to consume, and trying to solve the economic problems of the
day, by further denial or ignoring of this fact, that should be
self-evident, will be to build a structure with only half the foundation