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Updated: May 18, 2025
The Altrurian turned with this question to the banker, who said: "He is certainly not in society." "Then," said my guest, "if the working-man's wages are provisionally so much better here than in Europe, why should they be discontented? What is the real cause of their discontent?"
"Well," said the Altrurian, "they were a cheat and a lie in every way, and under the new system it was not possible, when public attention was called to the fact, to continue the falsehood they embodied.
"The man is a fraud, and a very bungling fraud at that." "Well, you must expose him, when he gets through," the banker whispered back. But the professor could not wait. He got upon his feet and called out: "May I ask the gentleman from Altruria a question?" "Certainly," the Altrurian blandly assented. "Make it short!" Reuben Camp's voice broke in, impatiently.
They also print selected passages of capitalistic history, from the earliest to the latest times, showing how in war and pestilence and needless disaster the world outside Altruria remains essentially the same that it was at the beginning of civilization, with some slight changes through the changes of human nature for the better in its slow approaches to the Altrurian ideal.
I confess that my heart misgave me; but I signalled the professor to be silent, and again gave the Altrurian if he was an Altrurian my whole attention.
I will let you make your own conclusions concerning this, for though, as an Altrurian, I cannot respect her, I like her so much, and have so often enjoyed her generous hospitality, that I cannot bring myself to criticise her except by the implication of the facts.
When I had got through, this lady began to question me herself in Altrurian, which I owned to understanding a little. She said: "You know Anatole?" "Yes, certainly, and I like him, as I think every one must who knows him." "He is a skillful chef?" "Mr. Thrall would not have paid him ten thousand dollars a year if he had not been." "You have seen some of his water-colors?" "Yes. They are exquisite.
Any young man of energy would be ashamed to stay, unless he wanted to keep a boarding-house or live on the city vacationists in summer. If he doesn't, he goes West and takes up some of the new land, and comes back in middle-life and buys a deserted farm to spend his summers on." "Dear me!" said the Altrurian. "Is it so simple as that?
There was one night, however, when we were lured on and on, and did not stop to camp till fairly in the dusk. Then we went to sleep without supper, for we had had rather a late lunch and were not hungry, and about one o'clock in the morning I was awakened by voices speaking Altrurian together.
I believed that this particular group, indeed, was rather abler to conceive of me as a rational person than most others, but I knew that if even they had expected me to be as reasonable as themselves they would not have been greatly disappointed if I were not; and it seemed to me that I had put myself wrong with them in imparting to the Altrurian that romantic impression that we hold labor in honor here.
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