to follow my reasoning. When I state what is not so, you mark the statement, and as an honest man write me and tell me where I blundered. I will then call this book in and correct the error before another copy is sold. If each fact is a fact and I have proven my case and show that we are supporting a stupendous crime, then you will be another one added to the increasing thousands that are prepared to right the present wrongs.
Now let us learn why those who work to produce the world’s goods have so little while those who produce so little have all.
Our Resources.
Here is a great continent having over 3,000,000 square miles of territory. All the climates from arctic Alaska to tropical Florida are found here. It is stored with vast natural riches to sustain life; it is filled with coal, oil, gas, minerals and other materials. From its soil is gathered tropical fruits and northern cereals. Its plains are abundant in pasture lands. In addition to its natural richness science has increased the yield of the farms and machinery has helped men to gather it.
In gathering the coal and crude mineral ores invention and steam have enabled us to do as much in a single hour as we did before in a month. Then there is the great factory system of the cities where steam and machinery enable a few men to produce in such abundance that it would amaze Ben Franklin were he permitted to witness it. Then we have a network of railways instead of the wagons that used to transport goods across the Alleghenies. The railway will carry a million tons ten times the distance in one hour that the wagon would carry one in a day.
The telegraph and telephone have also outstripped the mounted messenger of one hundred years ago so that while he carried news from New York to Philadelphia in one day, we now transmit news from New York to London, to Tokio, to St. Petersburg, to Calcutta, or around the world in an hour. Distance and space on this earth count for little any more. We have conquered them just as we have conquered natural resources and made them yield wealth in such vast abundance that the markets of the world are often glutted with it.
Now, John, contrast all these great advantages with those of 500 years ago. The people had none of them and
