He didn't do it because he wanted to, you can
bet your life on that. He's just another poor victim of a vicious system.
A fly in the same old web; same old fat spider in the middle!. Not capital
enough. Hard times and the little man goes under, no matter if he's a darn
sight better fellow than the bloated beast on top--"
"You mean if we were living in the Socialistic Utopia no man could go
under?"
"I mean just that. It's a sin and a shame, A fine young fellow--"
"Remember, you don't know anything about him. He's not a bad sort and has
always been quite honest before; but he's not very clever. If he were he
wouldn't have got himself into a predicament. He had a good start, far
better than nine-tenths of the millionaires in this country had in their
youth."
"Oh, I don't care anything about that. If all men were equally clever in
chasing the almighty dollar there'd be no excuse for socialism. It's our
job to displace the present rotten system of government with one in which
the weak couldn't be crowded out, where all that are willing to work will
have an equal chance--and those that ain't willing will have to work anyhow
or starve....One of the thousand things the matter with the present system
is that the square man is so often in the round hole. In the socialized
state every man will he guided to the place which exactly fits his
abilities. No weaker to the wall there,"
"You think you can defy Nature to that extent!"
"You bet.
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