We particularly hope that among the readers of Mr. Loch's
little pamphlet will be those who imagine that people who endorse the principles of the Majority Report and support the methods of the Charity Organisation Society are hard-hearted pedants who have adopted their views in the interests of money rather than of men. Nothing could be further from the truth. Those who oppose Socialism under all its aliases do so not in the interests of the rich but of the poor. They know that the only way to cure poverty is to maintain the moral strength of the individuals who compose the nation, and that this can only be done by fostering independence and building up the national character. But Socialism and pauperisation, for they are the same thing, destroy character, and thus destroy the nation's greatest asset. If Socialism would really make the poor less poor, we should all be Socialists. But Socialism would unman the nation. Therefore we oppose Socialism in all its forms and to the end.
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