Is not this the trouble with our whole man-made world, that
the game is played with loaded dice? Against the poor, the
weak and the unfortunate have the cards been stacked. A
tremendous percentage is in favor of the crook, the
scoundrel, the smug robber of industry by whom the hands are
dealt.

Wealth, created by the many, is more and more flowing into
the vaults of the few. Legislatures, Congress, the courts,
all the machinery of government, answer to the crack of the
whip wielded by Big Business. The creed of the allied
plunderers is that he should take who has the power and he
should keep who can.

Until we mutiny against the timidity of our times Democracy
and Prosperity will be dreams. The poor and the parasite we
shall have always with us.

In that new world which is to be MEN and not THINGS will be
supreme, property a means and not an end. The heart of the
world will be born anew under an economic reconstruction
that will give freedom for individual development. For our
social and industrial life will be founded not on a denial
of God but on an affirmation of Brotherhood.—From the Note
Book of a Dreamer.