"It is all wrong
on both sides. Two wrongs do not make a right. The system of espionage we
employ over everybody both on his side and ours, the tyrannical use we make
of our power, the corruption we foster in politics, our secret bargains
with railroads, our evasions of law as to taxes, and in every other way
that suits us: it is all wrong--all wrong. I'll be a party to it no longer.
You see to what it leads--murder and anarchy. I'll be a poor man if I must,
but I'll be a free and honest one at least."
"You are talking wickedly and wildly, Mr. Hobart. You are criticizing God
when you criticize the business conditions he has put into the world. I did
not know that you were a socialist, but what you have just said explains
your course," the old man reproved sadly and sanctimonious.
"I am not a socialist, Mr. Harley, but you and your methods have made
thousands upon thousands of them in this country during the past ten years."
"We shall not discuss that, Mr. Hobart, nor, indeed, is any discussion
necessary. Frankly, I am greatly disappointed in you. I have for some time
been dissatisfied with your management, but I did not, of course, know you
held these anarchistic views.
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