Free Market
Author:
H. L. Mencken
Online Publish Date:
The Free Market 18, no. 5 (May 2000) [Editorial note: H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) wrote this translation in the days during and after World War I. Woodrow Wilson’s wartime central planning, which led to arrests of businessmen and other dissenters, caused him to wonder what happened to the ideals of the American Revolution. Perhaps the language of the