When you take your stand for honest laws and just laws in the State of New York and in these United States together, when you call upon these gathered lawmakers to stand with you and put an end to unfair economies, your motives must be just, as any just person would say the same. It is astonishing then how one just and honest man may misjudge another.
The monopolies in this nation, their heart lying on Wall Street in New York, have grown great because of mistaken leaders and men who fear or fail to defy them.
My creed does not lead me to dislike the men who run a bank, a railroad or a factory. I do not hate a man for owning a bond and having a bank account. Upon the other hand, I believe each should make all the profits in business he fairly can, but I do believe banks and railroads have no right to exercise control over the government of the people. I also believe that all special privileges granted work infinite harm.
I believe that the greatest wealth of this republic is practically free from responsibility and taxation, and that the burdens of government have long fallen on the shoulders of men least able to bear them.
Naturally, it is important to remember in the discussion of the intersection of business private and public that, of the man who does run the bank, or the factory or the railroad, his welfare rests upon the welfare of the men working for him. So too does the welfare of the state and of society as a whole, rest on the welfare of the common man, each individual.
If circumstances are such that thrift, industry, and forethought enable the farmer, the tiller of the soil, on the one hand, and the wage-worker on the other, to keep themselves, their wives, and their children, in comfort, then society is prospering and each individual with it. We can then be assured to all prosper. Unfortunately, in this world the innocent find themselves obliged to pay the penalty of the misdeeds of the guilty. When hard times come, whether they be to our fault or to our misfortune, or be they to some speculative frenzy by bankers and bondsmen and traders of wealth, in any case, the trouble, once started is felt by every man of every walk of life.
We must recognize then this community of interest among our people. The welfare of each of us individually is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of us all. We must work to represent all true and honest men of all sections and all classes and to work for their interests by working for our common country.
The failure of government to treat each man's work as his merit and instead to protect and serve the interests of the every-growing wealthiest of the wealthy, is an ultimate failure to defend natural society. This administration has set clear and just promises. Monopolization of the sectors of our national economy into the hands of the few who only through destroying the welfare of the laborer earn their wealth is an injustice.
In New York, the fight now is against the enmassed wealth of individuals unworthy of the privileges given to them by the state and for the welfare of the public, each man and family, and it is this fight which must be won if we wish to represent honesty and justice.
The monopolies in this nation, their heart lying on Wall Street in New York, have grown great because of mistaken leaders and men who fear or fail to defy them.
My creed does not lead me to dislike the men who run a bank, a railroad or a factory. I do not hate a man for owning a bond and having a bank account. Upon the other hand, I believe each should make all the profits in business he fairly can, but I do believe banks and railroads have no right to exercise control over the government of the people. I also believe that all special privileges granted work infinite harm.
I believe that the greatest wealth of this republic is practically free from responsibility and taxation, and that the burdens of government have long fallen on the shoulders of men least able to bear them.
Naturally, it is important to remember in the discussion of the intersection of business private and public that, of the man who does run the bank, or the factory or the railroad, his welfare rests upon the welfare of the men working for him. So too does the welfare of the state and of society as a whole, rest on the welfare of the common man, each individual.
If circumstances are such that thrift, industry, and forethought enable the farmer, the tiller of the soil, on the one hand, and the wage-worker on the other, to keep themselves, their wives, and their children, in comfort, then society is prospering and each individual with it. We can then be assured to all prosper. Unfortunately, in this world the innocent find themselves obliged to pay the penalty of the misdeeds of the guilty. When hard times come, whether they be to our fault or to our misfortune, or be they to some speculative frenzy by bankers and bondsmen and traders of wealth, in any case, the trouble, once started is felt by every man of every walk of life.
We must recognize then this community of interest among our people. The welfare of each of us individually is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of us all. We must work to represent all true and honest men of all sections and all classes and to work for their interests by working for our common country.
The failure of government to treat each man's work as his merit and instead to protect and serve the interests of the every-growing wealthiest of the wealthy, is an ultimate failure to defend natural society. This administration has set clear and just promises. Monopolization of the sectors of our national economy into the hands of the few who only through destroying the welfare of the laborer earn their wealth is an injustice.
In New York, the fight now is against the enmassed wealth of individuals unworthy of the privileges given to them by the state and for the welfare of the public, each man and family, and it is this fight which must be won if we wish to represent honesty and justice.