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pie are foolish if they violate or rail against the law 

 wicked as well as foolish, but all foolish yet the 

 most foolish man in this Republic is the man of 

 wealth who complains because the law is adminis- 

 tered with impartial justice against or for him. His 

 folly is greater than the folly of any other man who 

 so complains; for he lives and moves and has his 

 being because the law does in fact protect him and 

 his property. 



We have the right to ask every decent American 

 citizen to rally to the support of the law if it is ever 

 broken against the interest of the rich man; and 

 we have the same right to ask that rich man cheer- 

 fully and gladly to acquiesce in the enforcement 

 against his seeming interest of the law, if it is the 

 law. Incidentally, whether he acquiesces or not, the 

 law will be enforced, and this whoever he may be, 

 great or small, and at whichever end of the social 

 scale he may be. 



I ask that we see to it in our country that the line 

 of division in the deeper matters of our citizenship 

 be drawn, never between section and section, never 

 between creed and creed, never, thrice never, be- 

 tween class and class ; but that the line be drawn on 

 the line of conduct, cutting through sections, cut- 

 ting through creeds, cutting through classes; the 

 line that divides the honest from the dishonest, the 

 line that divides good citizenship from bad citizen- 

 ship, the line that declares a man a good citizen only 

 if, and always if, he acts in accordance with the 

 immutable law of righteousness, which has been the 



