Honest Employment for All
Were it not for selfishness, there is plenty of honest employment for every one in this world. There is also plenty for every one to eat and to wear, if all were honestly and unselfishly employed. Our Dumb Animals suggests that there is plenty of needed work for every able-bodied man in this country to do,—on our river levees, in making roads what they ought to be, in building canals, reclaiming waste lands, irrigating deserts, and various other public improvements. To this suggestion the editor adds: “There is plenty of money to do it with if our legislators will only give us a proper system of taxation, and stop throwing away millions of dollars in attempting to outdo all the nations of Europe in the construction of great battle-ships which we never will need if we will simply attend to our own business.”