It Is The Debtor That Is Ruined

My Father And Mother In 1817 Were Forty-nine Days On The Road With Their Emigrant Wagons [from Vermont] To Ohio. More Than Two Days For Each Hour That I Spent In The Same Journey.

No Officer Should Be Required Or Permitted To Take Part In The Management Of Political Organizations, Caucuses, Conventions, Or Election Campaigns. Their Right To Vote And To Express Their Views On Public Questions, Either Orally Or Through The Press, Is Not Denied, Provided It Does Not Interfere With The Discharge Of Their Official Duties. No Assessment For Political Purposes On Officers Or Subordinates Should Be Allowed.

[t]his Free And Easy Old-bachelor Sort Of Life Is Quite Full Of Fun And Jollity. Pease And Myself Room Together; And Everything Like Order And Neatness Is Banished From Our Presence As A Nuisance--old Letters And Old Boots And Shoes, Duds Clean And Duds Dirty, Books And Newspapers, Tooth-brushes, Shoe-brushes, And Clothes-brushes, All Heaped Together On Chairs, Settees, Etc., In Dusty And "most Admired Confusion." Now, What Is There Imaginable In Clean, Tidy Private Life Equal To This?

One Thing You May Be Sure Of, I Was Not A Party To Covering Up Anything.

The Real Difficulty Is With The Vast Wealth And Power In The Hands Of The Few And The Unscrupulous Who Represent Or Control Capital. Hundreds Of Laws Of Congress And The State Legislatures Are In The Interest Of These Men And Against The Interests Of Workingmen. These Need To Be Exposed And Repealed. All Laws On Corporations, On Taxation, On Trusts, Wills, Descent, And The Like, Need Examination And Extensive Change. This Is A Government Of The People, By The People, And For The People No Longer. It Is A Government Of Corporations, By Corporations, And For Corporations.