who claim the right to partake of the blessings of freedom and opportunity, we who seek
to accumulate riches here, may as well know that neither riches nor opportunity
would be available to us if ORGANIZED CAPITAL had not provided these benefits.
For more than twenty years it has been a somewhat popular and growing
pastime for radicals, self-seeking politicians, racketeers, crooked labor leaders,
and on occasion religious leaders, to take pot-shots at "WALL STREET, THE MONEY
CHANGERS, and BIG BUSINESS."
The practice became so general that we witnessed during the business
depression, the unbelievable sight of high government officials lining up with the
cheap politicians, and labor leaders, with the openly avowed purpose of throttling the
system which has made Industrial America the richest country on earth. The line-up was
so general and so well organized that it prolonged the worst depression America has ever
known. It cost millions of men their jobs, because those jobs were inseparably a part of
the industrial and capitalistic system which form the very backbone of the nation.
During this unusual alliance of government officials and self- seeking individuals
who were endeavoring to profit by declaring "open season" on the American system of
industry, a certain type of labor leader joined forces with the politicians and offered to
deliver voters in return for legislation designed to permit men to TAKE RICHES
AWAY FROM INDUSTRY BY ORGANIZED FORCE OF NUMBERS, INSTEAD OF THE