for. Now, suppose the flea would sit up on the nose of that dog and say: "Lo and behold me, the benefactor. I have given work to this poor pup. Without me this doggie would have no job. Without me he would have no incentive to scratch." Wouldn't it be funny if the flea would make such an argument. And suppose the dog would vote for the flea on the strength of it, wouldn't that be still funnier? Yet this is exactly what the working people have done for many, many years.
Typical Arguments.
There are lots of people who still insist that we cannot do without the capitalist. I have seen many a poor devil who was a working man from his eyebrows down, and a capitalist from his eyebrows up, standing on a street corner, and by vigorously working his jaw, produce the following noise:
"What would the poor people do without the rich folks? Supposing there wasn't some people to take the money that we poor people make, and spend it, thereby giving us work, how would we poor folks ever find something to do?"
Then there is another lantern-jawed slab-sided, hungry looking individual, usually called a renter, and he says: "What would people do without landlords? Don't the landlord furnish the land for the renters? Nowadays a poor devil what ain't got any land, can always go to the landlord and get some. Under Socialism, when no man can hold land who doesn't work land, from whom would the renter rent land
Anybody with a grain of sense knows that the landlord furnishes the land. If the landlord had never been born, there wouldn't be any land,
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