Make no mistake—anything that will make it much easier for you to live by working will make it much harder for capitalists to live without working. Picking at the splinters of this poverty-problem will not do. The wrong is great; the remedy must be equally great. Anything that will not hurt the capitalist class much will not help you much. Between you and the capitalist class there can be no peace. So long as either of you exists, there can be only war. You will continue to fight for the right to live. The capitalist class will continue to refuse you the right to live except at the price of a profit. This ultimatum, which has never appealed to your stomach, will some day not appeal to your brain. You will begin to ask questions. You will ask if you were born only that Mr. Morgan, Mr. Armour or Mr. Ryan might be made a little richer. You will ask if it is right that you should die when you can no longer make others richer. Your common sense will tell you that you were not born to make anybody richer. Your common sense will tell you that you have a right to live, whether anybody be thereby made richer. And, when that time comes, you will be in no mood to listen to the remedies of “radical” gentlemen like Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Wilson. You will no longer want wage slavery “regulated”—you will want it destroyed. You will call for another Lincoln to destroy wage slavery as the first Lincoln destroyed chattel slavery. And your call will be answered, because you will answer it yourself. You will place in office not only a man but _men_ who will work your will. You will know what you want and you will get it, because you will know how to get it. The reason you have never gotten what you want is because you have never known how to get it. You want the right to work without being robbed. You do not seem to realize that it is the existence of the capitalist system that causes you to be robbed. In an indefinite sort of way you seem to believe that it is possible for a small class of bondholders and share-holders to live in luxury without working and, at the same time, take nothing from the product of your labor. If dividends grew upon one tree and wages upon another, your belief would be justified. But, inasmuch as dividends and wages grow upon the same tree, your belief is not justified. Both are the products of your labor. If the bondholders were to take everything you produce, you would have nothing. If you were to take everything you produce, the bondholders and other capitalists would have nothing.