Again I suggested,
maybe the workers were not yet sufficiently educated to run the
industries, they might need some help from the present masters.
"Just a little more education," I ventured--
And John Colver laughed, the first ugly laugh I had heard from him.
"Education by the masters? Education at the end of a club!"
"My boy," I argued, "I know there are plenty of employers who are
rough, but there are others who are good men, who would like to
change the system, would like to do something, if they knew what it
was. But who will tell them what to do? Take me, for example. I have
a great deal of wealth which I have not earned; but what can I do
about it? What do you say, Mr. Carpenter?"
I turned to him, as the true authority; and the others also turned
to him. He answered, without hesitation: "Sell everything that you
have and give it to the unemployed."
"But," said I, "would that really solve the problem. They would
spend it, and we should be right where we were before."
Said Carpenter: "They are unemployed because you have taken from
them wealth which you have not earned.
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