Footnote 311:
See Chapter Three, “Explanation”—Surplus.
Footnote 312:
Andrew Carnegie is a sample of a profit-stuffed tyrant whose parasitic
industrial income is tens of millions per year without rendering
industrial service, whose legally parasitic heirs, rendering no
industrial service, will, like leeches, suck up many millions per
year. The audacity of his hypocrisy is typical of his class. In recent
international peace congresses Carnegie has been steadily grinning and
chattering in the spot light. But study this man for a moment:
(1) In the Homestead industrial civil war, in 1892, Pinkertons
received $5 per day and expenses for murdering Carnegie steel workers.
(2) The Carnegie Company furnished the Russian Government steel armor
for warships at about one-half the price the same company
_patriotically_ charged Carnegie’s own dear, dear country.
(3) “Our records show that the companies governed by Mr. Carnegie
received more rebates [_in anarchistic defiance of his country’s
laws_] during the time when rebates were given by our road, than any
other shipper in any line of business.”—First Vice-President Green of
the Pennsylvania Railway Company. Quoted in the New York
_Independent_.
(4) This same crafty gentleman recently provided enormous old-age
pension funds for college and university professors. This will perhaps
tightly seal the lips of thousands of teachers on the raging civil war
in industry in which war Carnegie is already a blood-stained tzar.
Fearing to lose their old age pensions, teachers may find it easier
and more “respectable” to desert the working class in its struggle
against the capitalist class—Carnegie’s class. (See Index: “Hague
Peace Conference”; also Chapter Two, pages 24–25.)
Footnote 313:
“If, however, there occurs some general industrial disturbance of a
serious sort, such as a condition of over-production, ... it is likely
to turn out that these _vocational_ groupings will be weakened or even
destroyed. In their place the _economic classes_ will enter the
_political_ arena, and carry on the conflict with great energy.... It
may be that the standard of life of an industrial class may be so
seriously threatened that this class struggle will reach the extreme
of absolute hostility.”—Professor Albion W. Small, Head of Department
of Sociology, University of Chicago: _General Sociology_, p. 264.
Italics mine. G. R. K.
Footnote 314:
Reread first page of Preface.
Footnote 315:
William E. Gladstone.
Footnote 316:
“... Non-resistance would be fatal.... If ever war is done away, it
will be when the spirit of aggression, not of protection, shall have
been quenched.”—Lester F. Ward: _Dynamic Sociology_, Vol. I., p. 684.
Footnote 317:
See Chapter Seven, Section 12.
Footnote 318:
William Howard Taft: _Present-Day Problems_, pp. 162–63:—
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