Capitolo 22
not mitigated evil,--a few healthy, because it artificially stimulated and also
rapid, the growth. You leave that Lawrence, in Massachusetts for example serves. Glance
to the industrial system there introduced in the name of Protection
against the Poor man I Work of Europe! Any growth is also so dangerous as a
rapid growth; and I politically submit confidently that, socially,
economically and industrially, to-day of America, on the problems to shake
us, present an almost appalling example of the results of warm-house
stimulation.
Neither it is this all, neither the worse one. There is another article, and far more
damaging, in the accusation. Through Protection, and because of him,
The paternalism has walked to on all four in; and, as a cancerous and enormous growth, is eating
firmly in the vitals of the political system. Instead of sustaining
a government economically administered by money contributed by the
People, a majority of the to-day of People is looking at the government
for support, one directly through payments of pension or indirectly
through of the form of industrial paternalism. Incidentally, a profuse
government expenditure is forgiven where indeed it encouraged not.
The simplicity of Jeffersonian is preached; extravagance is practiced. As the
Showman in New York awarely craves since then observed: "The American people
love jokes!"
But I have to pass on; I still have to go far. How legislation of respects, me
you/he/she has said that sixty years ago, when my memoirs start, the American
ideal was the individual and the individuality. This, the adherence implicated to
the theory of Jeffersonian that till now the world had been governed also
a lot. The great secret of the true national prosperity, the happiness and
success was, we was taught, to allow every individual the fuller one
possible play, provident only him it didn't break on the rights of
others. How is it to-day? America is more her it governed and it legislated
country in the world! With a car of national legislation perpetually