No Man Has Ever Yet Been Hanged

As We View The Achievements Of Aggregated Capital, We Discover The Existence Of Trusts, Combinations, And Monopolies, While The Citizen Is Struggling Far In The Rear Or Is Trampled To Death Beneath An Iron Heel. Corporations, Which Should Be The Carefully Restrained Creatures Of The Law And The Servants Of The People, Are Fast Becoming The People's Masters.

The Best Results In The Operation Of A Government Wherein Every Citizen Has A Share Largely Depend Upon A Proper Limitation Of The Purely Partisan Zeal And Effort And A Correct Appreciation Of The Time When The Heat Of The Partisan Should Be Merged In The Patriotism Of The Citizen. ... At This Hour The Animosities Of Political Strife, The Bitterness Of Partisan Defeat, And The Exultation Of Partisan Triumph Should Be Supplanted By An Ungrudging Acquiescence In The Popular Will And A Sober, Conscientious Concern For The General Weal. ... Public Extravagance Begets Extravagance Among The People.

At Times Like The Present, When The Evils Of Unsound Finance Threaten Us, The Speculator May Anticipate A Harvest Gathered From The Misfortune Of Others, The Capitalist May Protect Himself By Hoarding Or May Even Find Profit In The Fluctuations Of Values; But The Wage Earner - The First To Be Injured By A Depreciated Currency And The Last To Receive The Benefit Of Its Correction - Is Practically Defenseless.

The Laboring Classes Constitute The Main Part Of Our Population. They Should Be Protected In Their Efforts Peaceably To Assert Their Rights When Endangered By Aggregated Capital And All Statutes On This Subject Should Recognize The Care Of The State For Honest Toil And Be Framed With A View Of Improving The Condition Of The Workingman

I Mistake The American People If They Favor The Odious Doctrine That There Is No Such Thing As International Morality; That There Is One Law For A Strong Nation And Another For A Weak One.