Excerpt from The Socialist Argument
The author of this book is a man who entered the mercantile business with his father, as a lad of twelve. He has spent fifty-three years in that business, and has built up in this industrial Massachusetts town a well equipped and successful Department store. He is a good example of the middle-class American business man. Though this man's life has been spent in the market-place, yet his deeper interests have been ethical rather than financial, and he has earnestly and fearlessly investigated for himself the great social and economic problems that press upon us. For these things we believe he deserves credit; and it is to be hoped that we have passed the stage where the fact that his study and thinking has led him to become a Socialist will in any wise detract, in the minds of candid people, anything from the credit due. We feel sure that the open-minded reader will find these essays as well worth while to him as they have been to us, Mr. Hitchcock's fellow citizens, to whom they were first read. And this book is timely, for it must be recognized that the questions herein discussed are the questions that press hardest today for solution. Sooner or later these social and economic problems must be faced and solved. Mr. Hitchcock's clear-cut Socialist Argument must be met by the thoughtful, and successfully refuted or finally accepted.
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