One thing which always bugs me about Chesterton, he always talks in sweeping generalizations and never bothers to cite specific examples. This first paragraph is a classic example: he complains that the institution of property has been “now so completely forgotten amid the journalistic jubilations over Private Enterprise”, and later adds “The newspapers now praising private enterprise are preaching the very opposite of anything that anybody dreams of practising.”
I know I don’t actually have to take his word for it that all the newspapers were talking like this or that nobody in the whole world would dream of actually practising what the papers were advocating. But this kind of style always felt sloppy to me, and it detracts from his credibility a lot.