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in the public mind identified with great business 

 corporations. Most of them have at one time or 

 another in their lives faced poverty and know what 

 it is; none of them is more than well-to-do. They 

 include Catholics and Protestants, Jews, and men 

 who would be regarded as heterodox by professors 

 of most recognized creeds ; some of them were born 

 on this side, others are of foreign birth ; but they are 

 all Americans, heart and soul, who fight out for 

 themselves the battles of their own lives, meeting 

 sometimes defeat and sometimes victory. They 

 neither forget that man does owe a duty to his fel- 

 lows, and should strive to do what he can to in- 

 crease the well-being of the community; nor yet 

 do they forget that in the long run the only way 

 to help people is to make them help themselves. 

 They are prepared to try any properly guarded 

 legislative remedy for ills which they believe can 

 be remedied; but they perceive clearly that it is 

 both foolish and wicked to teach the average man 

 who is not well off that some wrong or injustice 

 has been done him, and that he should hope for 

 redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty 

 and intelligence. 



