"To what have our historians been wont to compare the condition of the community under the profit system?"
"To that of a victim of the disease of chronic dyspepsia so prevalent among our ancestors."
"Please develop the parallel."
"In dyspepsia the patient suffered from inability to assimilate food. With abundance of dainties at hand he wasted away from the lack of power to absorb nutriment. Although unable to eat enough to support life, he was constantly suffering the pangs of indigestion, and while actually starving for want of nourishment, was tormented by the sensation of an overloaded stomach. Now, the economic condition of a community under the profit system afforded a striking analogy to the plight of such a dyspeptic. The masses of the people were always in bitter need of all thi
