and blood, but as civilization grows older its accumulating wisdom
should be more than a match for poverty, the parent germ of both
pauperism and crime; but the discouraging fact is that these two
diseases of civilized society are advancing faster than civilization
itself, and we build larger poor houses and jails, and then sit down and
nurse the hideous disorders, as if they were the incurable rot of
leprosy instead of being the result of economic laws that allow the able
to rob the weak.

There is not a county or State but what has plenty of work had it the
money to do it. The question of good roads is becoming prominent, but if
they are ever built under our present system of economics they will be
built by slave labor pure and simple. It is absolutely out of the
question for the people to raise the money for running the Government;
pay interest on bonds; pay for the bonds themselves; pay pensions; carry
on the costly work of giving the whole country macadamized roads, and
care for the millionaire, and remain free at the same time.

Government expenses.

Pensions.

Interest on bonds.

Matured bonds.

Macadamized roads.

Care of millionaire.