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Show a THINGS ONE REMEMBERS i I was talking to a very earnest lady recently who was enthused en-thused about the Idea of redistributing the wealth of the United States. I don't think she really knew the meaning of the phase, but it seemed to have a nice sound to her. She said the capitalistic system should be changed, and limit the amount of mioney any one person could have to not over one million dollars. I agreed no one should starve on a million and asked what her plan was for stopping industrial leaders when they had their million. In other words, when would such men cease to be laborers, labor-ers, from which point they started, and become capitalists? If Henry Ford had been shelved when he made his first million, mil-lion, the world might have waited years to enjoy the millions of cheap automobiles he has built. Ford is merely an example of the individual genius of a laboring labor-ing man, which can be seen on every hand in the United, States. It was this genius that built our nation. You cannot limit genius and at the same time give its beneficial bene-ficial results to the people. Those who thoughtlessly talk about redistribution of wealth, confiscating capital through taxation and limitation of inventive genius, are simply advocating, whether they know it or not, destruction de-struction of millions of jobs and wiping out of savings. My intellectual lady friend was up a tree, as it were, when she started to try to decide, 'When is a laboring man not a laboring man?' or 'When does he become a capitalist?' R. M. Hofer. |