Some years since a great economist said: "If men of wealth
do not learn to use their property for the benefit of society,
the time will come that society will own it for them." Similar
statements brought the man into trouble, and we are sorry that
we have not been able to find that sentence in the later
editions of his works.
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We should be open minded as to measures of social and
economic reform, ready to approve them when they commend
themselves to us as just. We must not be so pessimistic as
to conclude that because no remedy for an evil is in sight,
therefore none will ever be found.
