all capitalists from being eaten up by what he terms the
"System."
It is very evident to some of us that if he cannot show us
how to protect the great majority of the people who,
although they are not even small capitalists, are the ones
who are really footing the bills, his remedy will not be the
grand success he anticipates.
J. P. FERRITER.
My Remedy will benefit the whole American people. It will help most the
man who nowadays in America deserves most to be helped--the producer,
who to-day is exchanging the efforts of all his working hours for the
bare necessities of himself and family; not those bare necessities which
the white slaves of Europe are ground down to believe are their only
requirements, but those which the free and enlightened American
believes, and has taught his family to believe, should be his
necessities.
It is intended to benefit most the man who has nothing left over after
paying his bills Saturday night but the terrors of not being able to
meet them the coming week. It would indeed be a parody on a Remedy if it
did not bring relief to this class.
Next, my Remedy will benefit that great middle class whose savings go to
make up the billions in the savings-banks, national banks, trust and
insurance companies, which are used by the "System" to secure for
themselves a hundred, a thousand, and ten thousand per cent. interest on
_their_ capital, while the owners of these billions must be content with
two and a half to four per cent. per annum; and
Next, it will benefit that class which possesses large fortunes honestly
acquired, inasmuch as it will enable them to know what there is behind
their investments. None but those who have plundered the
people--acquired overnight fortunes many times larger than any honest
lifetime efforts could possibly bring--can possibly be hurt by the
application of my Remedy.
You are right--any remedy which would do other than what mine proposes
to do would be a farce.
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