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to employers inevitably extend to the operatives, Thiey are 

 copartners, and cannot afford to be antagonists. Capital is as 

 dependent on labor as labor is on capital, and only as both 

 work in harmony, can the highest good of each be secured. 

 Indeed, labor is both superior and prior to capital, and alone 

 originally produces capital. Many a penniless laborer, because 

 well educated, frugal and industrious, has become an independ- 

 ent capitalist. Our most successful manufacturers have toiled 

 up from penury to afHuence. This aspiration may stimulate 

 every one who is educated enough to combine skill with labor. 



Communism is an exotic in this land. It does not easily 

 take root in our soil, and the climate is uncongenial. Its chief 

 advocates are homeless foreigners, even the immigrants long 

 resident here have become so schooled by public sentiment 

 and by our free institutions, as to be well nigh assimilated and 

 Americanized. 



Schools and the diffusion of property are our safeguards 

 against Socialistic extremes. John Adams well said, "The 

 ownership of land is essential to industrial thrift and to national 

 security and strength and prosperity." Switzerland, with insti- 

 tutions as free as ours, is safe from Communism, for two rea- 

 sons — the maintenance of free schools, and the general owner- 

 ship of land. The Internationals may meet in free Switzer- 

 land, and nobody is frightened or disturbed by their vagaries. 

 Germany has education, but not an equal distribution of land. 

 Her vast standing army, consuming without producing, with 

 its enormous expenses and exactions, has created a great revul- 

 sion of feeling among the people. The glory of conquest and 

 the untold milliards of the French indemnity mainly expended 

 on new fortifications and military equipments, do not atone for 

 the mourning and bereavement brought to so many now deso- 

 late homes, the heavy burden of taxation, the dread of con- 

 scription, the fear of new complications and wars, and the inex- 

 orable demand that every boy shall spend three weary years of 

 service in the camp. Myriads of families with boys approach- 

 ing the military age, have emigrated to other lands to escape 

 this dreaded conscription. 



In France the home of Communism has always been in Paris. 

 The horrors of the Commune in 1871 proved suicidal to the sys- 



