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Confiscation An Outline

WILLIAM GREENWOOD
Those Palaces on the Nob Hills of these United States; are the
toadstools of the decay that is going on in this Republic today. - Page
42.

PREFACE.
The Emancipation Proclamation has only 718 words.
Lincoln's address at Gettysburg has only 266 Words.
The works of Thomas Paine were not only one of the important factors
that brought success to the struggle for Independence, but they were
also largely instrumental in the Declaration itself being made. And
those works, what were they? - mere pamphlets.
Shakespeare, whose writings are said to be an education in themselves,
can be had in a volume not twice the size of "Progress and Poverty."
Why, then, cannot a scheme of political economy, even when it is a
radical departure from our present system, be sufficiently outlined for
working purposes in a volume of this size, and also written so that it
shall be intelligible to those to whom all such works should in a
Republic be addressed; namely, the voter, who alone has the power to
bring about the desired change?
The late Professor Tyndall was both an original investigator of natural
phenomena and a teacher who could make his discoveries plain to the
ordinary mind as he could to the scientist working in the same field as

himself.
Discovering a truth in Nature or in political economies is work only
half done if the discoverer wishes to make it known to those in whose
interest he claims to be working.
Labor, iron labor, makes the scholar, says Emerson.
Labor, iron labor, gave Tyndall the faculty that, made him intelligible
and interesting to the young, and the right to preside at a meeting of
Humboldts.
But there is pride of intellect as well as pride of riches, and none shows
this pride as do the writers on political economy who have made it the
"dismal science," instead of having made it the A, B, C of our mental
furniture, as it should be with the people of a republic.
Making a good use of our means in our home and business affairs is
good economics.
Making a poor use of them is bad economics.
That is all there is to this word, whether it is our private affairs or those
of the nation that are being considered.
If we live up to our laws, and yet want and privation exist while there is
more than sufficient for all, then the fault must, be in those laws.
Making a scapegoat of the foreigner