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Show EQUALITY fjKjt a.. By Geore Pctt ma We hear much these days about equality, but taere sen,s i to be a wide aivergcice of opm- j ion as to just what "equality means when applied to the human hu-man family. Ask a socialist what he means by "equality," and he will tell , you jt means a civilization in which all equally share the wealth. ' 1 Ask a capitalist or a believer in the capitalistic system and the definition you will get from him is that "equality" is the civilization in which all have equal opportunity and equality before the law. Commencing' with the French Revolution the socialistic dream of equality of wealth has led to vast cruelty and endless bloodshed, blood-shed, all to very little purpose. At times the bourgeoisie and the upper class either have been relegated rel-egated to the sidelines or completely com-pletely liquidated by the proletariat; prole-tariat; wealth has 'been confiscated confis-cated and divided. Any government can immediately immedi-ately establish equality of a sort by taking away propertv from the rich "haves" and distributing distribut-ing it among the poor "have-nots." "have-nots." Currently that is what we are doing through progressive progres-sive income taxation, social so curity, unemployment doles, etc. In the past, whenever and wherever a government has undertaken un-dertaken equal distribution of the wealth, the "have-nots" did not become less poor. Notable examples of this are the French and Russian Revolutions. Why did these fail? Simply because confiscation of the property pro-perty of the rich, even if honestly hon-estly distributed among the general gen-eral population, nq more raises the level of wealth than a cup of water appreciably raises the level of the water in a bathtub. Here in America we had made considerable progress toward an equality of plenty in a capitalistic capitalis-tic economy. It would be idle for us to contend we had reached reach-ed that much-to-be-desired goal, but we were on the right track. At least, we had travelled further fur-ther toward it than has any other nation in the entire history his-tory of the world. We know the formula for achieving an equality of plenty it is to produce a sufficiently large quantity of things, and the distribution of them will take care of itself. The automobile automo-bile is but one of many things which can be cited as proof of this. We produce the automobile automo-bile in large quantities, and witness wit-ness the many millions of passenger pas-senger cars that travel our highways high-ways today. If the United' States is per- mitted to resume along the pathway path-way on which it started and along which it journeyed for a century and a half, it is not unreasonable un-reasonable to assume that eventually event-ually we will achieve an equality equal-ity of plenty, without any governmental gov-ernmental planning or interference. interfer-ence. . Just as there is a minimum of things necessary man's de cent subsistencp-- ium of thin Jherefore, whLhat I t& Action ofWai ntc5, has been ar.; at)d C : everybody and hi ! plenty, win have 1 J!,.' ed. That is the onb be c'one. m ay |