[The Iron Heel by Jack London]@TWC D-Link bookThe Iron Heel CHAPTER IX 15/56
And still remain the surpluses.
They cannot dispose of these surpluses to one another.
How are they going to get rid of them ?" * Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States a few years prior to this time, made the following public declaration: "A more liberal and extensive reciprocity in the purchase and sale of commodities is necessary, so that the overproduction of the United States can be satisfactorily disposed of to foreign countries." Of course, this overproduction he mentions was the profits of the capitalist system over and beyond the consuming power of the capitalists.
It was at this time that Senator Mark Hanna said: "The production of wealth in the United States is one-third larger annually than its consumption." Also a fellow-Senator, Chauncey Depew, said: "The American people produce annually two billions more wealth than they consume." "Sell them to countries with undeveloped resources," Mr.Kowalt suggested. "The very thing.
You see, my argument is so clear and simple that in your own minds you carry it on for me.
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