| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 49 |
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and those people by increasing the competition for what work there is, would inevitably cause a reduction of wages and a greater scarcity of employment. The theories that drunkenness, laziness or inefficiency are the causes of poverty are so many devices invented and fostered by those who are selfishly interested in maintaining the present states of affairs, for the purpose of preventing us from discovering the real causes of our present condition.' `Well, if we're all wrong,' said Crass, with a sneer, `praps you can tell us what the real cause is?' `An' praps you think you know how it's to be altered,' remarked Harlow, winking at the others. `Yes; I do think I know the cause,' declared Owen, `and I do think I know how it could be altered -' `It can't never be haltered,' |
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