"According to our laws the public owned and operated everything, and
produced and distributed all of its own goods. And in doing this it set
aside all superfluous vocations that merely wasted public power and
turned these forces into other channels for the common good. For
instance: as the State owned all of the land and everything that was
produced, and simply gave to the individual that which he was capable of
consuming, there was no need for such things as taxes. And without taxes
there was no public labor wasted by tax collectors, lawyers, treasurers,
auditors, clerks, book-keepers, etc.
"Then again, the individual being able to obtain everything free of
charge, money became valueless, all the evils of the financial system
eliminated, and the preponderance of labor expended in upholding this
unnatural system was used for productive purposes, thus doing away with
such occupations as money making, money lending, banking, broking,
speculating, gambling, etc.
"Without money in existence, and labor being the only purchasing power,
and as every want was satisfied by the State in return for the
individual's services, there was nothing left to steal, and consequently
no necessity for utilizing the labor of an army of human beings as
police, detectives, judges, lawyers, juries, etc.
"And as all the public necessities were produced and distributed by the
most systematic, direct, and economic methods, straight from the store-
houses to the consumers, there was no use for merchants, traders,
jobbers, agents, salesmen, clerks, peddlers, etc.
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