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Show Something Ab-"oufc Ab-"oufc Capitalism I and Its Fall THE NEXT NINE YEARS An Analysis and a Prophecy by Wing Anderson " First Printing, July 1938 R THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD "Aye, stand from under! A world is falling. Frenzied millions Sof men and women, boys and girls, no longer free, save in name, are menaced with starvation. Hungry, cold, half-clad, shelterless, denied a chance to work, however willing they may V be, corporation-owned machinery their competitor; monopoly I : and trust ridden, sleeping or waking. This inhuman picture is I ; the rule not the exception. . . All of this has been so at the endings of every age. But it can never be so after this for here f the way divides. In full time, by fire, the Reaper shall reap, . ond no place be found for physical safety for the unchanged 5; of heart. Stand from under. The roar of armed hosts must toffisucceed the thunderous mutterings of the times. No more is fipic there any chance to prevent the coming retribution (albeit it rarimay seeem unduly deferred) for the causes have had their Jiway. A short but brief conflict, sanguinary past belief, even now reddens the horizon. The trained armies, millions of men ""active or in reserve, that are now engaged in conquest, fevered with war, will but a little longer submit to having themselves and loved ones ground under the heel and strangled by the mf.hand of that organized thing, Capital. ' Capital, the fruit of selfishness, nonetheless is a riotous an-apimal an-apimal principle, compelling the few to be masters of the many, ridtdenying the Cod-born declaration that all men are created free re9l:and equal, and warping it to seem a giant lie. Soon millions of aS: trained soldiers will turn upon the visible representatives, the wealthy and worldly -prosperous,, who in reality are not more responsible than will be their assailants, of that Relentless Force behind all human enterpris. Later they will break up . into lawless bands each self-server's hand against his fellow n creatures. Then will the pent-up hate, the savagry and selfishness selfish-ness begotten b y ages of selfishness, ruled by unbridled ani-.malism, ani-.malism, break into a storm such as the world has never seen. hriThat loveless conflict will initiate that which Nature complet-S'iing, complet-S'iing, will leave living but one where now are many. Hard and fast after the human conflict will come pestilence unparall-rffeled, unparall-rffeled, sweeping the wide earth over, for in that day none will pause to bury the slain until the evil is wrought, nor then, for 'm the dead of the plague will be as thousands for every one by 12violence. "All this because the love that should grace and soften men's hearts dried up and became a mockery in the close of .jithe ended cycle, leaving but scattered oases, few and far be- tween. Nature follows man. Wherefor the waters of the earth ?l will dry out, rains be withheld, cyclones sweep, and an earth-! earth-! quake come such as was not since a man was on earth. All ot 1 J this will occur only through natural causes, and in consonance 'fa' with the selfishness, lust, greed, anger and general depravity ISSof the type. As these blaze in the human breast, so shall the f"iar, dry and vaporless under brazen skies, develop solar hea.s W:more fierce than history ever knew. A parched earth, fur-vnace-Wke, pestilences' stalking unchecked. and ' r "0 ye, Blind to the handwriting on the wall, turn now and Spread while yet the last midnight stroke reverberates ' 'fw All that, my friends, from a book written in California in 1886, entitled, A DWELLER ON TWO PLANETS. The war of 1915, the earthquakes, the cyclones, the floods, Aand droughts, the'flu and other epidemics we have seen with P ever recurring frequncy in the last century, are the hanJ-! hanJ-! writings on the wall, warnings of worse to come. |