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those who show that there is in very fact one law, 

 and one law only, alike for the rich and the poor, 

 for the great and the small. 



Men sincerely interested in the due protection of 

 property, and men sincerely interested in seeing that 

 the just rights of labor are guaranteed, should alike 

 remember not only that in the long run neither the 

 capitalist nor the wage-worker can be helped in 

 healthy fashion save by helping the other; but also 

 that to require either side to obey the law and do its 

 full duty toward the community is emphatically to 

 that side's real interest. 



There is no worse enemy of the wage-worker 

 than the man who condones mob violence in any 

 shape or who preaches class hatred; and surely the 

 slightest acquaintance with our industrial history 

 should teach even the most short-sighted that the 

 times of most suffering for our people as a whole, 

 the times when business is stagnant, and capital 

 suffers from shrinkage and gets no return from its 

 investments, are exactly the times of hardship, and 

 want, and grim disaster among the poor. If all the 

 existing instrumentalities of wealth could be abol- 

 ished, the first and severest suffering would come 

 among those of us who are least well off at pres- 

 ent. The wage-worker is well off only when the 

 rest of the country is well off; and he can best con- 

 tribute to this general well-being by showing sanity 

 and a firm purpose to do justice to others. 



In his turn the capitalist who is really a con- 

 servative, the man who has forethought as well 



