Sunday, March 11, 2007  The Horror  by G.K. Chesterton  For the
first time within mortal memory, the Government and the nation
has set out on a definite deliberate campaign to make the poor
poorer. Even Industrialism and Individualism pretended to make
the poor richer. Even Smiles and Self-Help promised to the make
the poorricher; or at least some of the poor richer. Every dirty
little limited liability company professes to make some of the
poor richer. But to-day the little professional politician,
telling the truth for the first time in his life, threatens to
make the poor poorer. As far as I can make out, he threatens to
make some of the poor poorer than they can possibly be, without
starving in the street, or falling back in another form on
support by the State. People who are already clinging with their
teeth and fingernails to the edge of the chasm are to be
formally and legally kicked into the chasm. It is no longer even
a matter of the old leonine contract of the wicked
philanthropists, who made a man