"Representatives" of the People may be found dogging the
footsteps of those who need to buy laws, or to steal the people's
rights. ----
It is a fierce and remorseless climb up the steep road to wealth.
There are many corpses, many crimes, many broken hearts, haggard
faces and bitter disappointments on that road.
The man with the "Good-money-making idea" struggles on with it
over the bodies of suicides and of those who have fallen in
despair.
At the bottom of the road the murderer plies his trade with knife
or poison--to make money. And the murderer who has tried for
MUCH money calls forth special interest and special
privileges, special new trials, special newspaper headings.
At the top of the road to wealth, another, more intelligent
class, work with equally remorseless energy. They murder no
individual. But they rob entire classes of society.
They tax others to fatten their pockets--they add to the cost of
food that children eat--they coin human life into cash--smoothly
and nicely, using law-makers as tools. Envy and admiration are
theirs--such admiration as the retail murderer can never earn.
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The struggle for money is the struggle of THE WHOLE WORLD to-day.
And of the money-making movement, as of ALL WORLD-WIDE MOVEMENTS,
there is a side that is good and necessary.
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