it from their stomachs; he couldn't shear it from their backs, because
it don't grow on that class of animals. What would you think of the
farmer's good wife if after the wolves had killed and sucked the warm
blood of the last lamb she would in her supreme recognition of the law
of the survival of the fittest take from her child's grave the
tombstone that had carved thereon the image of a little lamb at rest
under the weeping willow and place in its stead a statue of marble with
the life-sized image of a wolf with the blood of a lamb streaming from
his teeth? No, that would not be the act of a sane mother, nor would
the farmer willingly leave the sheep in the pasture with no other
protection but the wolves.

Under laws recognizing viciousness the most vicious will survive best.

Our country and her people are industrious and willing, but we are in
debt, having promised to pay American dollars that by the vicious
system of contracting the money under the gold standard which makes
dollars harder and harder to get, which is only another way of
expressing the fact that wages and produce will go lower year by year
under the system of greed that is accompanying the gold standard in all
countries. But one thing can help the masses of our people out of the
bondage of debt, and that thing is higher prices for labor and produce.

Higher prices in America will follow either of two causes--foreign
famine and war or bimetallism and an increased volume of money. The
latter is within our control, the former method no one should desire.

Let us not disclaim against the wolves, for scientists tell us that the
shepherd dog that so kindly protects the sheep is a direct descendant
of the wolf, but he has been domesticated by the law of man. So we see
that under the vicious law of the survival of the fittest the wolf as a
master was a sheep destroyer, but under the civilized law of the
survival of the fittest, the descendant of the vicious wolf as we know,
the shepherd dog is a servant of the sheep. Gold is good money, but as
a master it is a tyrant. Let us hitch it side by side with silver and
paper money, put it all under direct control of the government, and the
wealth of this nation will be our servant, but with gold in control our
nation's wealth becomes a hard master.

The other day, while on the train, in conversation with a rich banker,
the subject of the rich and poor came up. He said "there was nothing in
the law that tended