In the hands of a few it must be, if it would be a kingdom or empire. In
the hands of all it must be, if it would be a republic. To insist on
having the personal liberty that goes with a republic, and at the same
time not to set a limit to the resources an individual can own, is a
contradiction. A republic has economic laws that are essential to her
existence. Any others mean her destruction. And it is utterly out of the
question for any political party to improve the conditions of the
people, while they use the present economic laws as the basis of their
proposed legislation.

You must begin at the foundation. Individual greed should be made to
respect the right of others to exist, and made to conform itself to laws
that are as necessary to the life of a republic as is the ballot itself.
The ballot, in fact, has lost its power. It is the key to a house we
have lost possession of, and if we would regain possession and make the
ballot something more than a mere symbol of a thing that is dead, we have
no choice but to resort to the one process by which the resources of the
country can be returned to its people, and the blight of poverty and
pauperism that is settling down on the country and is becoming permanent
can be removed - namely, confiscation.

Man, in the beginning, seeing annihilation staring him in the face,
combined and gave us the Government of the Tribe; out of that developed
the Despotic form; out of that developed the Constitutional Monarchy,
out of which developed the Republic, the highest type of them all; and
this work of development must ever go on, if we would not lapse into
former conditions.

The founders of the republic could not have expected their work to so
soon come to the Chinese halt that has overtaken it, until we now find