| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 1367 |
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suppose,' interrupted Crass. `Or go to the workhouse,' said Slyme. `Or to 'ell,' suggested the man behind the moat. `- The State would continue to pay to the shareholders the same dividends they had received on an average for, say, the previous three years. These payments would be continued to the present shareholders for life, or the payments might be limited to a stated number of years and the shares would be made non-transferable, like the railway tickets of today. As for the factories, shops, and other means of production and distribution, the State must adopt the same methods of doing business as the present owners. I mean that even as the big Trusts and companies are crushing - by competition - the individual workers and small traders, so the State should crush the trusts by competition. It is surely justifiable for the State to do for the benefit of the whole people that which the capitalists are already doing for the profit |
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