The Harmony of Interests: Agricultural, Manufacturing by Carey, Henry Charles Publication date: 1856 [quote] The Mother Caimtry, by Sydney Smith. 1849. pg 205 '''...until property threatens to be swallowed up by the propertyless, and a terrible communism to be realized among us by a legalized division of the goods of those who have, among those who have not — the fearfulfest socialism, the equal republic of beggary. 'Speak I strike! redress!'
[AI Correction] Thank you for providing this exact historical text excerpt. This quote changes the context completely and fills in the missing link. In The Harmony of Interests: Agricultural, Manufacturing, and Commercial (1851/1856), American economist [Henry Charles Carey](https://www.google.com/search?q=henry+charles+carey&kgmid=/m/02glp2) uses Sidney Smith’s The Mother Country to illustrate a warning about what happens when a society's industrial and agricultural systems are profoundly broken. [1]
When Smith writes:
"...until property threatens to be swallowed up by the propertyless, and a terrible communism to be realized among us by a legalized division of the goods of those who have, among those who have not — the fearfulest socialism, the equal republic of beggary. 'Speak I strike! redress!' "