"I am opposed to Socialism because of its inhumanity; because it saps the vitality of the human race which has no vitality to spare; because it lulls to indolence those who must struggle to survive; because the theories of good men who are enthralled by its delusions are made the excuse of the wicked who would rather plunder than work; because it stops enterprise, promotes laziness, exalts inefficiency, inspires hatred, checks production, assures waste and instills into the souls of the unfortunate and the weak hopes impossible of fruition whose inevitable blasting will add to the bitterness of their lot."
Edward F. Adams
*Two papers, the first read before the League of the Republic at the University of California, December the fifth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and the second read before the Ruskin Club of Oakland, California, some years earlier; printed by Paul Elder and Company.
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