Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: m AND FOR THIS, WHAT REMEDY t Must it endure for ever, or must there come a time when changes are inevitable? Shall it be changed by a series of peaceful reforms, or shall it end in revolution? No thoughtful person will for a moment assume that present conditions are to continue indefinitely. They must either be made better or allowed to grow worse. If they are to be made better then they are to be changed by a series of peaceful reforms. If they are to be allowed to grow worse, then the inevitable consequence is revolution. Few indeed are the people who are not in favour of some reform, yet each in his mind has set the bounds beyond which this process must not pass. One man would have us regulate the trusts, another would have us own them. Still another would be satisfied with a reduction of the tariff. One man would have state control of railways, another advocates state ownership. One man will draw the line at public ownership of public utilities, while yet- another declares out and out for socialism. Each in his turn sets bounds to progress of reform; none realize that no such bounds can ever be set until every form of injustice has vanished and until unearned increments are things of the past. Those who take the view that things are growing worse, and not better, have much to support their position. Day by day the number of small producers grows less; day by day the strength of large combines and large aggregations of capital becomes greater; day by day the number of persons who live by wages increases, and day by day the number of employers grows less. Day by day the power of the trusts grows greater, and day by day the cost of living increases, and were it not that our eyes are being blinded to another and equally important set of facts the conclusion would b...