To say that labour _in its more extended sense_ is the producer of all wealth, is a mere meaningless platitude.

It is to say that there would be no wealth without effort of some kind.

Does Mr.
Wilshire seriously wish us to believe that he is telling Mr.Edison that "if he will only cast his ballot intelligently" he will be able to treble his income at the expense of richer men?
[6] This applies to England no less than to America.

Whenever any one of the more educated amongst the socialistic agitators is taxed with maintaining the popular doctrines of socialism with regard to labour, he at once repudiates them, and accuses his opponents of imputing to him and his fellows childish fallacies which no one in his senses would maintain; but the propagation of these fallacies amongst the more ignorant sections of the population continues just the same.
[7] According to Mr.Hillquit, Dickens, for example, made his whole fortune by robbing his compositors..