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pendable philosophy through which individuals may accumulate riches in what-
ever amounts they desire.

I have here analyzed the economic advantages of the capitalistic system for the
two-fold purpose of showing:

1. that all who seek riches must recognize and adapt themselves to the system
that controls all approaches to fortunes, large or small, and

2. to present the side of the picture opposite to that being shown by politicians
and demagogues who deliberately becloud the issues they bring up, by referring
to organized capital as if it were something poisonous.

This is a capitalistic country, it was developed through the use of capital, and
we 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 depres-
sion, 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.

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During this unusual alliance of government officials and self-seeking individu-
als 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 NUM-
BERS, INSTEAD OF THE BETTER METHOD OF GIVING A FAIR DAY'S WORK
FOR A FAIR DAY'S PAY.

Millions of men and women throughout the nation are still engaged in this popu-