The Other Side of the Story.

Suppose we said to Lord Salisbury or the Duke of Westminster—one gets mixed up with these people, these lords and earls and marquises and dukes—suppose we were to say to them, "You believe in individual liberty, individual progress, and individual development: well, suppose we take away from you your legal protection, the legal right to your property." Lord Salisbury would say, "But you cannot." And suppose we were to retort, "We won't protect you; we will withdraw our police and our judicial system from you—a system collectively owned and maintained. If you consent to our withdrawing from you all our collectively-maintained protective measures we will be satisfied to let you have your individual liberty." Do you think Lord Salisbury or any of the others would take us at our word? Not a bit of it. If we said, in the event of war between us and another country, "You are the owners of this country, you had better