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 Law.
Had Christ taught Natural Law instead of supernatural religion, had he
been an organizer and started a movement toward the abolition of the
money system and established a united labor organization in place of the
system of individual accumulation, the world long ere this would have
been a heavenly abiding place for the human family, instead of a
seething furnace of petty quarrels, murderous fights, and selfish strife
among all of the inhabitants.
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