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Show "He bought that house and Joined the hated landlord class. Some years later when it was reported that a band of strikers were advancing to shut all the factories, Otto rushed into my office at the head of an excited ex-cited group of men from the shop yelling: " 'Get us a lot of shotguns and we'll keep those fellows out of here! Those fools expect a man to work and save and then walk In here and take what he has got without paying for It!' "And that," Farquhar concludes, "I think, is always the way to develop a conservative." HOW A RIP-ROARING RADICAL WAS TAMED By JOHN OAKWOOD The best :tory of the taming ot a radical I have ever read is told by A. B. Farquhar in his book "The First Million the Hardest." It throws more light on the meaning of capitalism and the futility ot socialism than a library li-brary full of books on sociology, economics eco-nomics and politics. Here it Is as Farquhar tells It: "The best antidote for acute economic eco-nomic Insanity Is ownership of property. prop-erty. My favorite example is Otto Stelninger. He was one ot my flrat employees and was a rip-roaring anarchist an-archist He Insisted that all wealth came from the workers and therefore should go back to the workers. He was particularly bitter against his landlord and hardly a week went by that he did not announce that he had definitely decided that he would like lo shoot the landlord the next time he came around for the rent. Finally I asked him smilingly after one of these outbursts: Bu Don't Shoot "'Why don't you buy your own house Instead of shooting tmr land- i lord? Then you would not have to pay any rent. If you do shoot him you may get into trouble.' "He did nt think much of the idea apparently but In a day or two he asked me how he could buy the house, j i answered: 'That house can be bought for S00. You are getting good wages. I will buy that house for you, take $4 a week out of your wages, and in less than four years you will have It paid for-' "He wnt off again. The next time be came back it was with h'.s wife. He said: "We are going to buy that house but since we have no children you can take JIO Instead of $4 a week out of my tmy envelope.' "1 bought te bouse and ttun Oito's chief concern was to get !t paid tor, which he did in a little more than a year. There was unnther house next door to him. In a siiurt while aftr he had I'aid for his first house, he siilled up to me and said: "'1 can buy that house next door fur u thousand dollars. Now that w have no rent to pay wo arc golus along s i 1 . What mi id you think about me !uy.h' thai?' |