STREET DOGS

F[If] you say that money is made by the strong at the expense of the weak, what strength do you mean?

Is money made by the man who invents a motor at the expense of those who did not invent it?

Is money made by the intelligent at the expense of the fools? By the able at the expense of the incompetent?

When men live by trade – with reason, not force, as their final arbiter – it is the best product that wins, the best performance, the man of best judgment and highest ability – and the degree of a man’s productiveness is the degree of his reward.

Do not envy a worthless heir; his wealth is not yours and you would have done no better with it. Do not think that it should have been distributed among you; loading the world with 50 parasites instead of one would not bring back the dead virtue which was the fortune.

[And] men who apologise for being rich will not remain rich for long.

They are the natural bait for the swarms of looters that stay under rocks for centuries but come crawling out at the first smell of a man who begs to be forgiven for the guilt of owning wealth.

They will hasten to relieve him of the guilt – and of his life, as he deserves.

Then you will see the rise of the men of the double standard … such looters believe it safe to rob defenceless men, once they have passed a law to disarm them.

But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it.

Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those who are most ruthless at brutality.

When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket.