CHAPTER IX 



AMONG THE TOILERS 



T N the human world, the strife between capital 

 -*- and labour, between the " haves " and the 

 "have nots," is the natural consequence of private 

 ownership and voluntary alienation of property. 

 Labour, often too busy to think, but able to feel, 

 argues from the standpoint of pressing emotion ; 

 and capital, well-fed and leisurely, of course, views 

 the matter in the light of abstract reasoning. 

 Labour, with untutored tongue, exclaims at the 

 bare idea of a man being born rich or poor, 

 according to the means of his parents and inde- 

 pendently of his own mental or moral qualities. 

 Capital answers the cry by an allusion to the 

 advantages which the many have derived from 



