Guilty or Not Guilty

     Socialism charges Capitalism with the Crime of the Age.
     What have the defenders of Capitalism to plead in answer, Guilty or Not Guilty?

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     Socialism is ready to proceed with the trial on the evidence of Capitalism on the charge, “Guilty of the assassination of McKinley.” She asks no delay. She demands an immediate trial. She assumes the burden of proof.
     Are you ready, gentlemen of the defense?

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     If you are ready to defend your system from the charge of “Criminal of the Age,” speak, gentlemen of the capitalistic press. Silence cannot avail in the presence of this awful crime that blackens America.

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     Anarchy is the legitimate child of Capitalism. It is individualism carried to its logical extreme.

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     Socialism deprecates violence as inhuman, illogical and unwise.

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     Socialism offers the only possible escape from Anarchism, both in method and result. Its method is peaceable and legal. Its result is peace, contentment, riches, ample and normal human development.

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     Modern machines able to produce 13 times as much as the tools of a century ago, and actually producing the enormous wealth that lies all about us.
     The workingmen of brain and hand, the vast majority of them barely able to get a living, and the wealth accumulating in the hands of a few! Proletaire and Billionaire!
     Such is the awful contrast that drives an unbalanced mind to commit the Anarchist’s crime.
     Don’t blink your eyes to this fact, you capitalist physicians who hunt for a cure-all.

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     Socialism urges and argues and beseeches that all these Anarchist fanatics turn with the great host of Proletarians to the Ballot Box and capture the powers of government, wherewith they can take possession of the modern machine and use its mighty productive capacity for the benefit of all.
     Then will the Anarchy fiend disappear from the earth.