Securing the Fruits of Labor by James L. Huston

Author:James L. Huston [Huston, James L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States
ISBN: 9780807160473
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2015-05-11T04:00:00+00:00

PART III

THE FOUNDATION CRACKS, 1880–1920

The farther I went with him [Arthur Lapham Perry] in his way through these flowerless fields, the more I thought I saw the answer to the problem of Accumulated Wealth and Accumulated Power that overhung the barony. Easily I bound cause to effect. The root of the evil was the accursed tariff. …

The Free Trade movement died of a profound constitutional malady. Like so many other well-meant reforming inspirations, it had attacked symptoms but stopped short of causations. All that the Free Trade champions said against protection and its evils was true; it was indeed an overflowing fountain-head of trouble. But it was only the outgrowth of an underlying condition. So long as the profit system was to be retained, Protection or Free Trade could make little difference to the lives of the masses, and even Henry George purposed to leave the profit system virtually intact. The real source of the world’s distress was production for profit and nothing could remedy or seriously affect the disorders arising from that source except the substitution of production for use.

—Charles Edward Russell, Bare Hands and Stone Walls: Some Recollections of a Side-Line Reformer

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