ared with its army to enforce
its decrees. In the same day all women factory workers were dismissed to
their homes, and all the sweat-shops were closed. "But we cannot make
profits!" wailed the petty capitalists. "Fools!" was the retort of
Goliah. "As if the meaning of life were profits! Give up your
businesses and your profit-mongering." "But there is nobody to buy our
business!" they wailed. "Buy and sell--is that all the meaning life has
for you?" replied Goliah. "You have nothing to sell. Turn over your
little cut-throating, anarchistic businesses to the government so that
they may be rationally organized and operated." And the next day, by
decree, the government began taking possession of all factories, shops,
mines, ships, railroads, and producing lands.

The nationalization of the means of production and distribution went on
apace. Here and there were sceptical capitalists of moment. They were
made prisoners and haled to Palgrave Island, and when they returned they
always acquiesced in what the government was doing. A little later the
journey to Palgrave Island became unnecessary. When objection was made,
the reply of the officials was "Goliah has spoken"--which was another way
of saying, "He must be obeyed."

The captains of industry became heads of departments. It was found that
civil engineers, for instance, worked just as well in government employ
as before, they had worked in private employ. It was found that men of
high executive ability could not violate their nature. They could not
escape exercising their executive ability, any more than a crab could
escape crawling or a bird could escape flying. And so it was that all
the splendid force of the men who had previously worked for themselves
was now put to work for the good of society. The half-dozen great
railway chiefs co-operated in the organizing of a national system of
railways that was amazingly efficacious. Never again was there such a
thing as a car shortage. These chiefs were not the Wall Street railway
magnates, but they were the men who formerly had done the real work while
in the employ of the Wall Street magnates.

Wall Street was dead. There was no more buying and selling and
speculating. Nobody had anything to buy or sell. There was nothing in
which to speculate. "Put the stock gamblers to work," said Goliah; "give
those that are young, and that so desire, a chance to learn useful
trades." "Put the drummers, and sal