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 course, there are barren spots of earth, but there is more than enough good country everywhere to care for the race.

We have had it drummed into us that famine and pestilence are visitations of Providence.

It's a blundering lie. They are visions of capitalism.

Capitalism is the devil that walketh about as a roaring lion seeking whom it may devour.

If you doubt this, I might quote some Scripture for you—passages that the average preachers are prone to overlook in their strenuous efforts to save souls. The Old Book is full of them—here are a few that will do:

You will find this in the X Psalm. It reads:

"The wicked in his pride persecuteth the poor. He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages; in the secret places doth he murder the innocent; his eyes are privily set against the poor. He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den; he lieth in wait to catch the poor; he doth catch the poor, when he draweth them into his net."

Yes—Capitalism sits in "lurking", in "secret" places, and concocts all the devilment that pesters the race.

That's the main occupation of your prominent republican and democratic politicians.

They "catch the poor" and they "draw them into their net."

No matter by whom and for whom The Los Angeles Times building was dynamited, the sensational confession on the eve of election was pulled off exactly on time to "catch the poor" and "draw them into their net."

One press report from Los Angeles reads:

"Every effort was made to connect Harriman (Socialist candidate for mayor) directly with the McNamara case. No point was left uncovered. The night before election a large squad of men were sent from house to house in