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DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
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DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE
The Right and Wrong of Our
Present Distribution of Wealth
BY
JOHN A. RYAN, D.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science at the
Catholic University of America; Professor of
Economics at Trinity College; Author of
"A Living Wage," "Alleged Socialism of the
Church Fathers," Joint Author with Morris
Hillquit of "Socialism: Promise or Menace?"
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1916
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Censor.
Imprimatur.
JOHN CARDINAL FARLEY,
Archbishop of New York.
Copyright, 1916,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1916.
TO
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND
in
Admiration and Gratitude
PREFACE
Five of the nine members of the late Federal Commissionon Industrial Relations united in the declaration thatthe first cause of industrial unrest is, "unjust distributionof wealth and income." In all probability this judgmentis shared by the majority of the American people. Regardingthe precise nature and extent of the injustice,however, there is no such preponderance of opinion.Even the makers of ethical and economic treatises fail togive us anything like uniform or definite pronouncementsconcerning the moral defects of the present distribution.While the Socialists and the Single Taxers are sufficientlypositive in their sta