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Articles and Discussions on the Labor Question

Articles and Discussions on the Labor Question

Trumbull, Matthew Mark

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1150335637
ISBN13: 9781150335631
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.18 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ... THE SOURCE OF POVERTY. A REPLY BY WHEELBARROW TO MR. L.'S CRITICISM. Thanks for allowing me to answer Mr. L.'s criticism. I like to meet a critic who frankly confesses that he comprehends the subject and that I do not. From such a critic I always expect instruction, and seldom get it. Is Mr. L. perfectly sure that he comprehends the case? His illustrations indicate that he does not. True, a physician finding his patient suffering from headache, indigestion, pains in the side, and cold feet, might wisely say, These are lot four diseases, but four symptoms of one disease, and on that theory he might properly prescribe a single remedy; but suppose four patients afflicted with different disorders, will he treat them all alike? This is more nearly like the case about which we are now holding a consultation, and Mr. L.'s instance does not fit. Society is composed bf many persons, some of them healthy and some not. The sick patients have all sorts of disorders, and the cures must be as various as the causes of disease. Poverty, says Mr. L., is the real disease; and he would abolish it by levying a single tax on land. He can as easily remove it with a crowbar. Whatever poverty results from land monopoly will vanish when that monopoly shall cease to be; but the poverty caused by the land system is only a small portion of the aggregate wants and deprivations which go by the name of poverty. Poverty is a consequence, like sorrow, and like sorrow it comes from a thousand springs. The college of physicians was once confounded by a wise man who advised the faculty to abolish sickness, instead cf attacking diphtheria, measles, and fever. Remove sickness, gentlemen! he said, and all the diseases will disappear. A good many years ago, I lived on the western ...

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