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I Shoot The Hippopotamus With Bullets Made Of Platinum, Because If I Use The Leaden One His Hide Is Sure To Flatten Em.

The Sea Drives Truth Into A Man Like Salt.

When The Mass Of Men Are Dispossessed - Own Nothing - They Become Wholly Dependent Upon The Owners; And When Those Owners Are In Active Competition To Lower The Cost Of Production The Mass Of Men Whom They Exploit Not Only Lack The Power To Order Their Own Lives, But Suffer From Want And Insecurity As Well.

Coupled With Usury, Unrestricted Competition Destroys The Small Man For The Profit Of The Great And In So Doing Produces That Mass Of Economically Unfree Citizens Whose Very Political Freedom Comes In Question Because It Has No Foundation In Any Economic Freedom, That Is, Any Useful Proportion Of Property To Support It. 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.

The Terror In Which English Capitalists Now Stand Of Organized Proletarian Resistance Gives To The Naturally Protected Craft Organizations The Power To Receive The Wages They Demand. They Act As They Have Been Trained To Act By Capitalist Society, Which Denies The Doctrine Of The Just Price, Which Proclaims Work To Be An Evil And The Goal Of Human Endeavor To Be The Avoidance Of It; Which Puts It Up As An Ideal That Individuals Should Get As Much Money As They Possibly Can Out Of Their Fellows By Any Means In Their Power.