To the Editor of the "Norra-Cuixa Dairy News."
Sin,—The spectacle of factory after factory passing into the hands of the Italian proletariat and the grave labour troubles now in progress in England suggest certain reflexions that may be briefly emphasized en passant, Capitalism denounces in unmeasured terms present-day Bolshevistic tendencies, but is not Capitalism itself to blame? The policy of soulless exploitation of their less fortunately placed fellow-men has been carried too far. We are now only reaping what we have sown, after all. Even here in Shanghai, we see evidences of the same evil. Landlords and others of that kidney are apparently determined to make it as difficult as possible for the average man to 1 Thereby, they are surely signing their own death-warrant. Their amazing inaptitude renders it impossible for them to realize that sooner or later their own acts will react on themselves.
From what the world has seen of capitalism in the main, one is forced to confess that. a certain labour leader was not wide of the mark when he declared that if it were possible for capitalists to bottle up God's fresh air, they would not hesitate to do so and would sell it at so much per ounce.
Tt would be 2 mistake to suppose that present-day conditions will continue everlastingly. Human flesh and blood cannot endure it.
Here, as elsewhere, we seem to be fast gravitating towards a day of reckoning. The reckoning will be a bitter one.
Lam, etc., Justice Amon Men. Shanghai, Sept. 15.
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