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Nobody’s Man

CHAPTER IV
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You have preferred to waste your time and waste your money.

You've had more than one warning you know, Crockford." "Aye, more than a dozen," Segerson muttered.
The man looked at them both and there was a dull hate gathering in his eyes.
"It's easy to talk about saving money and working hard, you that have got everything you want in life and no work to do," he protested "It's enough to make a man turn Socialist to listen to un." "Mr.Crockford," Jane said, "I am a Socialist and if you take the trouble to understand even the rudiments of socialism, you will learn that the drones have as small a part in that scheme of life as in any other.

You have a right to what you produce.

It is one of the pleasures of my life to help the deserving to enjoy what they produce.
It is also one of the duties, when I find a non-productive person filling a position to which his daily life and character do not entitle him, to pull him up like a weed.

That is my idea of socialism, Mr.
Crockford.


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