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Show A Word on Capitalism The parasitical aspect of capitalism is the highly efficient and glorified modern economic system by which a powerfully organized small group give the struggling farmer about a dol- ; lar for a bushel of wheat and sells the same bushel to the consumers con-sumers toilers, widows and orphaus and , others for about twelve dollars a bushel in the form of fluffy loaves of bread, to the great rejoicing of the honored exploiters. Veritis j I If we read the papers rightly the Utah Tax Commission kA collects $17,000,000 a year; the county officials collect I; $8,000,000 and the city about $4,500,000. This is a total of $29,500,000 a year to keep the books and do the business of the state, county and the largest city. It is altogether too much. We honestly believe that it could be done for half the cost. Efforts should be made to reduce it. A great writer has said: "The present war is the punishment punish-ment for the moral dullness of the world. Civilization has lost God which has made human nature beastial, and made man a wolf to his fellows." He speaks the truth. Commercial exploitation exploi-tation of man by man, with its attendant poverty and distress has driven the Lord out ri the setup. |