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—either in his generation or in some preceding 
one. Any man with a sound mind and a sound 
body can become a capitalist. When the laborer 
has saved one dollar he is a capitalist, — he has 
money to lend at interest or to invest in some- 
thing that will bring a return. The second 
dollar is easier saved than the first, and every 
dollar saved is earning something on its own ac- 
count. All persons who have money to invest or 
to lend are capitalists. Of course, some are great 
and some are small, but all are independent, for 
they have more than they need for immediate 
personal use. 
«I am going to tell you how you may all 
become capitalists; but first 1 want to point out 
your real enemies. The employer is not your 
enemy, capital is not your enemy, but the saloon- 
keeper is, —and the most deadly enemy you can 
possibly have. In that fringe of shanties over 
yonder live the powers that keep you down; 
there are the foes that degrade you and your 
families, forcing you to live little better than 
wild beasts. Your food is poor, your clothing 
is in rags, your children are without shoes, your 
homes are desolate, there are no schools and no 
social life. Year follows year in dreary mono- 
tone, and you finally die, and your neighbors 
thrust you underground and have an end of you. 
Misery and wretchedness fill the measure of your 
days, and you are forgotten. 
“This dull, brutish condition is self-imposed, 
