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Show Hon. B. H. Roberts Knew And Yearned For Its Coming The late B H. Roberts knew that a new and higher economic ec-onomic order was the birthright of humanity and his great heart yearned for its coming. The following spoken in 1933 should command attention; "The people are being placed in a position to construct a new economic policy-for a New Age to take the place of the capitalistic system and its spirit wherein shall exist more equality, more justice, a policy wheie there shall be no more consistent division of the conjoint production of labor and cap tal, whose wealth shall not forever flow into possesion of one while ninety and nine have empty hands. "The economics of the New Age will also recognize that man in order to be even approximately equal in mental development; de-velopment; in intellectual attainments, which is their right"" limited only by tiie native capacity of each; also to be eq-qal eq-qal in the things of the spirit they must be somewhat equal eq-ual in material things, for these latter minister to the former form-er and are so necessary to their attainment that they may not be denied. How may one be brave and generous, have the sense of freedom, be noble in sentiment and fearless in action, if all his energies are absorbed in obtaining a bare livelihood and. harassed by anxieties about keeping his job in order to provid a scant and precarious livelihood for himself and his immediate dependents, threatened constantly cons-tantly by the ill-matched pair of human horrors advancing advan-cing helpless age -and unfed want " m - |
