Excerpt from Reducing the Cost of Living
With impertinent regularity, economic and social questions present themselves for solution. At one time the central figure in the tangled mass of issues that loom before society is slavery; at another time it is universal education. Each issue, as it appears across the path of progress, must be met and mastered before civilization can resume its course.
When the twentieth century dawned the Western World was confronted with two portentous problems. One of these problems involves the relation between private and social property; the other involves the cost of living.
The cost of living issue is intimately related to the controversy over the rights of private and social property. The two problems are not inseparable, however. Indeed, in many of the phases they are sharply distinguished. Neither question can be ignored. America is a laud of justice; yet blatant wrongs challenge the attention of the most superficial observer. America is a laud of equality ; yet the present generation enters upon a life arena of inequalities such as the world has seldom seen. America is a land of plenty, but rising prices spread hardship and misery.
The questions involved in the high cost of living are menacing in some of their aspects.
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