SOCIALISM AND THE FARMING INTEREST 



"A curse upon all this machinery and per- 

 spiration for differentiating the individual 

 shares of product. Go to, we will divide 

 equally. That is easier, and, for the major- 

 ity the dividends so obtained are larger." 



Men's insatiate rage for wealth on every 

 hand stimulates this temper. Money hun- 

 ger is by no means confined to those whom 

 people denounce therefor. 



2. It would file off and at length entirely 

 annul the invaluable spur of individual 

 initiative. That this result would come is 

 obvious from the preceding. It is less easy 

 to swing a pick than to wait for and draw 

 one's annual "divvy." The miraculous rich- 

 ness of initiative, enterprise and daring 

 hitherto witnessed in men's activities, mas- 

 tering nature and bringing forth ever new 

 devices for men's comfort and progress, 

 would fall away along with the prompting 

 furnished by necessity and individual op- 

 portunity. Philanthropy might be incen- 

 tive enough to sustain work and invention 

 if we could get it in necessary measure, but 

 philanthropy is a quality not to be called 



