| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 1363 |
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`I don't mind admitting that this 'ere scheme of national ownership and industries is all right if it could only be done,' said Harlow, `but at present, all the land, railways and factories, belongs to private capitalists; they can't be bought without money, and you say you ain't goin' to take 'em away by force, so I should like to know how the bloody 'ell you are goin' to get 'em?' `We certainly don't propose to buy them with money, for the simple reason that there is not sufficient money in existence to pay for them. `If all the gold and silver money in the World were gathered together into one heap, it would scarcely be sufficient to buy all the private property in England. The people who own all these things now never really paid for them with money - they obtained possession of them by means of the "Money Trick" which Owen explained to us some time ago.' `They obtained possession of them by usin' their brain,' said Crass. |
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