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The Rich Arrived In Pairs And Also In Rolls Royces; They Talked Of Their Affairs In Loud And Strident Voices... The Poor Arrived In Fords, Whose Features They Resembled; They Laughed To See So Many Lords And Ladies All Assembled. The People In Between Looked Underdone And Harassed, And Our Of Place And Mean, And Horribly Embarrassed.

The Power Of The State Must Be Invoked For Restoring Economic Freedom Just As It Has Been Invoked For Destroying Economic Freedom.

But Though Usury Is In Itself Immoral, And Justly Condemned By Every Ethical Code, Its Chief And Worst Defect In The Particular Case We Are Now Examining, The Growth Of Capitalism And Its Increasing Proletariat, Is The Centralization Of Irresponsible Control Over The Lives Of Men: The Putting Power Over The Proletariat Into The Hands Of A Few Who Can Direct The Loans Of Currency And Credit Without Which That Proletariat Could Not Be Fed And Clothed And Maintained In Work.

Ownership By Delegation Is A Contradiction In Terms. When Men Say, For Instance (by A False Metaphor), That Each Member Of The Public Should Feel Himself An Owner Of Public Property-such As A Town Park-and Should Therefore Respect It As His Own, They Are Saying Something Which All Our Experience Proves To Be Completely False. No Man Feels Of Public Property That It Is His Own; No Man Will Treat It With The Care Of The Affection Of A Thing Which Is His Own.

Political Freedom Without Economic Freedom Is Almost Worthless, And It Is Because The Modern Proletariat Has The One Kind Of Freedom Without The Other That Its Rebellion Is Now Threatening The Very Structure Of The Modern World.