“The Russians have burned a lot of factories.”
“Yes.”
“If a factory were built here would you burn it?”
“Maybe we would.”
“Then how can you expect a man with money, which is capital, to come here and build a factory, if it is likely it would be burned?”
He pondered this. “We might only take it away from him,” he decided.
“But Americans do not go round building factories if they are going to be burned, or taken away by the workers.”
“Why not,” he asked. “All Americans are rich. They ought to build factories for the poor people, to give them work. You do it in America.”
“But a factory to keep running, must make a profit.”
“We do not believe in profits,” he said, his face lighting up at the happy thought that he had met my arguments.