will force prices up, and, by decreasing production, will cause a
superfluous quantity of labor, which, in turn, will force wages down.
With cheap labor to produce, and a high selling price for the
production, the trust managers and other financiers have easily solved
the question of how to legally confiscate the wealth of the world."

"New York City: A great war is now being waged between the rich tenement
house owners and their poor tenants on the East Side, which promises to
end in lawlessness, riots, and much suffering in consequence. It appears
that the owners of these houses have increased the rents from time to
time until they are now beyond the reach of the tenants' ability to pay.
At least three thousand of these occupants have banded together to fight
the last raise, while the landlords have also combined to evict them
unless they comply with the terms. The tenants, who are mostly hard
working laborers, claim that it is utterly impossible for them to meet
the extortionate prices of foods, fuel, gas, oil, and rents, now being
forced upon them by the financiers with the small amount of wages that
they receive for their work from the industrialists, and if they are
evicted from their present homes it is a problem as to what they will do
or where they will go. The landlords claim that is none of their
concern; that they themselves are merely following the system now in
existence of getting all they can, through their property rights,
according to the law of supply and demand. Some of them even claim that
these tenants are nothing more than vermin, anyway, and that it would be
well to push them all into the East River and exterminate them
entirely."

The newspaper articles, which I have reproduced, are but a few of the
thousands chronicled daily of the terrible crimes which take place in
all parts of civilized Christendom over the individual possession of
money, or its equivalent, and they also demonstrate that after nineteen
hundred years of Christianity the world still remains in a savage state.
The Christian must admit, if he will stop and consider, that there must
be something lacking in his religion, if after all these centuries, such
barbarous conditions still exist. What is lacking? This question can be
answered in a few words. The abolition of the money system. The
eradication of individual accumulation. The substitution of united labor
and honest distribution. The adherence to the principles of Natural L