tled by the hardest workers in the world. Their big production made
us rich. If we slacken production we will soon be poor. The Indians
owned everything in common. They did not work. And they were so poor
that this whole continent would support less than two million of them.
Thousands of Indians used to starve and freeze to death every hard
winter.

The white man who doesn't want to work is sick. He needs a dose of
medicine, not a dose of the millennium. The Bible says that in the sweat
of his face man shall eat bread. When labor loafs, it injures labor
first and capital last. For labor grows poor to-day while the capitalist
gets poor to-morrow. But to-morrow never comes. The capitalist can turn
laborer and raise himself a mess of pork and beans.

The laborer who does not turn capitalist and have a house and garden for
his old age is lacking in foresight.

Men will never be equal. John L. Sullivan had many fights, and John
always whipped the other fellow, or the other fellow whipped John.
When all men are equal, every prize fight will end in a draw, and every
batter will knock as many home runs as Babe Ruth.

"There is enough already created to supply everybody if it were equally
divided." Yes. And there is enough ice at the North Pole to cool off the
Sahara Desert if it were equally divided. There is enough water in the
seven seas to flood the six continents if it were equally divided.

The time to quit work and divide the wealth is just two weeks before the
end of the world. For the world's surplus of supplies is just two weeks
ahead of starvation. Wheat is being harvested in one country or another
every week in the year. And yet with all the hard work that men can do,
they can not boost the world's supply of bread so as to increase our two
weeks' lead on the wolf of famine. The wolf is ever behind us only two
weeks away. And if we stumble for a moment, he gets nearer.

American machinery enabled the western farmer to raise and harvest as
much wheat as twenty Russian peasants. In India where wheat is raised
by hand, the labor of one family will only feed one family. But in the
Dakotas, the labor of one man will deliver in Chicago enough flour to
feed three hundred men a year. This increase in man's power to produce
wheat caused the world's population to double itself since McCormack
invented the reaper. The Chinese and Hindu millions who would have
starved to death, have been fed, and that's why they're with us t