Họ không phải là nhà kinh tế, nhưng expounders các hoạt động của chính phủ trong một chi nhánh đặc biệt của chính quyền. Đối với dưới sự can thiệp của chính phủ với các doanh nghiệp thống nhất của các chính sách của chính phủ đã lâu kể từ khi tan rã vào bộ phận bị phối hợp. | Is There ĩẨny Remedy tAvailable Ill fact that the main issues of present-day politics are purely economic and cannot be understood without a grasp of economic theory. Only a man conversant with the main problems of economics is in a position to form an independent opinion on the problems involved. All the others are merely repeating what they have picked up by the way. They are an easy prey to demagogic swindlers and idiotic quacks. Their gullibility is the most serious menace to the preservation of democracy and to Western civilization. The first duty of a citizen of a democratic community is to educate himself and to acquire the knowledge needed for dealing with civic affairs. The franchise is not a privilege but a duty and a moral responsibility. The voter is virtually an officeholder his office is the supreme one and implies the highest obligation. A citizen fully absorbed by his scientific work in other fields or by his calling as an artist may plead extenuating circumstances when failing in this task of selfinstruction. Perhaps such men are right in pretending that they have more important tasks to fulfill. But all the other intelligent men are not only frivolous but mischievous in neglecting to educate and instruct themselves for the best performance of their duties as sovereign voters. The main propaganda trick of the supporters of the allegedly progressive policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings which socialism has in store for mankind. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas or still less to refute the objections raised by the economists. All they did was to call their adversaries names and to cast suspicion upon their motives. And unfortunately the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems. Consider for instance the problem of mass unemployment prolonged year after year. The progressive interprets it as an evil inherent in .
