Excerpt from The Problem of the Unemployed Anonymous
As he appeared many years ago when he first became interested in the subject indicated by the following questions:
Improvements in labor-saving processes make it easier to produce the necessities and comforts of life, then why should not such improvements also make it easier for all to obtain and enjoy the necessities and comforts of life?
Why should not the intensity of the struggle for things be lessened by inventions which make it less difficult to produce things, and why should not life for all of us thereby be made less strenuous rather than more strenuous?
Why should the production of wealth be continually curtailed by panics, dull times, and the involuntary idleness of vast numbers of workers, whose constant employment would enormously add to the prosperity and wealth of the nation?
Is there a remedy? If so, does it point toward individualism and freedom or toward socialism and slavery?
Does the remedy require the confiscation of private property, or does it admit of compensation in full to all who would otherwise be injured by its adoption?
Must there not be some kind of a readjustment if our civilization is to survive against the forces of increasing want in the midst of increasing plenty? Read Lord Macauley's celebrated letter written in 1855, which President Garfield said startled him like "an alarm bell at night." See page 211, infra.
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