My
purpose is to show you, not by any guess of mine, or any appeals to
your faith, but by cold business facts which can be understood in
Wall Street, that this economic lunacy is one which can be cured;
that we have the remedy in our hands, and lack nothing but the
intelligence to apply it."
18. I do not want to bore you with a Socialist speech. I only want
to give you an idea of the trap into which Mr. Douglas van Tuiver
had been drawn. He stood there, rigidly aloof while the speaker went
on to explain the basic facts of wealth-production in modern
society. She quoted from Kropotkin: "'Fields, Factories and Work-
shops,' on sale at this meeting for a quarter!"--showing how by
modern intensive farming--no matter of theory, but methods which
were in commercial use in hundreds of places--it would be possible
to feed the entire population of the globe from the soil of the
British Isles alone. She showed by the bulletins of the United
States Government how the machine process had increased the
productive power of the individual labourer ten, twenty, a hundred
fold. So vast was man's power of producing wealth today, and yet the
labourer lived in dire want just as in the days of crude
hand-industry!
So she came back to her millionaire, upon whom this evil rested.
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