| Show HOW A ROARING RIP-ROARING RADICAL WAS VAS TAMED By JOHN OAKWOOD The best Clary t ry of the taming of a radical I have hive ever read Is told by A A. B. B Farquhar In his book The First t Million the Hardest It throws more I light on the meaning of capitalism and the futility o socialism than a all library li library li- li full of books on on sociology economics eco eco- and and- politics Here it Is aa as ai I Farquhar tells it The best antidote for acute economic economic economic eco eco- i Insanity is le ownership of property prop prop- erty My y favorite example is I Otto He was one of f my grit first employees and was Wall a roaring rip an He insisted that all wealth came from the workers and sad therefore should go back to the workers worker lie He was particularly bitter against hM ble landlord and hardly a week eek went by byj that he did not announce that he be had definitely decided that he be would Ilk like lib to shoot the landlord the next time he came around for the rent Finally I asked him smilingly after one of oil of these outbursts Buy Dont Don't Shoot Why dont don't you buy your own house honse of ot shooting your landlord landlord land lord Then you would not have to pay any rent If you do shoot him you nay get into trouble lIe He did not think k much ot of the Idea apparently but In a day or two he be het asked me how ho could buy the house I 1 That house can be bet bought for You are getting good wages 1 I will buy that house for you take takeI 4 I a week out of your wages walea god and In less than four years you will have It t paid tot for He Ire went off ort again The next nut ti time e ehe I be he came back It was 1111 with his hll wife we lIe He said We are going to buy that bouse house but since we have bave no children you can take 10 1110 instead of ot U 4 1 a I week I out of my mJ pay envelope I J bought the house and IDeS thin then Otto Ottos concern was to set get It paid for fort tori which he Oid 14 id In a little more more than a al year There was WAI another house hops next door to him In III a short hort w while Ue after he be bad had paid for tor his hll lIr first t house houe k It hei sidled up to me and said laid I HI I can call buy that house houie next door for Cor a thousand dollars dollan Now that w- w wi have no rent to pay we are going along alone good 1004 Wb t would you think she abol I buying that I t H II bought that house and Joined It the he hated landlord class Some yell years pater later when It fl was reported that a band of ot strikers were advancing to shut hut all the factories Otto rushed Unto nto my o office lc at the bead head of ot aa as ex cited group croup of ot men from the he shop 7 Lt l Get u us u. a I lot of shotguns and well we'll steep keep those fellows out of beret Those Thole fool expect a man to work and save un land nd then walk In here and take wha II hat has go lot got without paying for tor UP IU 1 I And that Farquhar concludes conclude I t think U is always alwan in lbs UI wa way ta to develop t I conservative |
