The Sea Drives Truth Into A Man

Had There Been Any Existent Vital And Energetic Institution Left In Society After The Reformation For The Use Of Small Property In Coordinated Form-that Is, In Combination, So That The Average Man's Holding Could Be Put To Useful Purpose In Company With The Holdings Of A Great Number Of Other Men Of His Own Sort, The New Evils Would Not Have Arisen.

Since It Is To The Advantage Of The Wage-payer To Pay As Little As Possible, Even Well-paid Labor Will Have No More Than What Is Regarded In A Particular Society As The Reasonable Level Of Subsistence. The Lower Ranks Of Labor Will Commonly Have Less, And If Public Relief Were Afforded Even Up To The Wage-level Of The Lowest Ranks Of Labor, That Relief Would Compete In The Labor Market; Check Or Dry Up The Supply Of Wage-labor. It Would Tend To Render The Performance Of Work By The Wage-earner Redundant.

Slowly But Certainly The Proletarian, By Every Political Reform Which Secures His Well-being Under New Rules Of Insurance, Of State Control In Education, Of State Medicine And The Rest, Is Developing Into The Slave, Leaving The Rich Man Apart And Free. All Industrial Civilization Is Clearly Moving Towards The Re-establishment Of The Servile State.

There Is Already Something Like A Jewish Monopoly In High Finance... Here Is The Same Element Of Jewish Monopoly In The Silver Trade, And In The Control Of Various Other Metals, Notably Lead, Nickel, Quicksilver. What Is Most Disquieting Of All, This Tendency To Monopoly Is Spreading Like A Disease.

Under The Old Philosophy Which Had Governed The High Middle Ages Things Had Been Everywhere Towards A Condition Of Society In Which Property Was Well Distributed Throughout The Community, And Thus The Family Rendered Independent.