If these are not moral
questions, there are no moral questions.
The people of this country have lost vastly more than they can ever
regain by gifts of public property, forever and without charge, to men
who gave nothing in return. It is true that, we have made superb
material progress under this system, but it is not well for us to
rejoice too freely in the slices the special interests have given us
from the great loaf of the property of all the people.
The people of the United States have been the complacent victims of a
system of grab, often perpetrated by men who would have been surprised
beyond measure to be accused of wrong-doing, and many of whom in their
private lives were model citizens. But they have suffered from a curious
moral perversion by which it becomes praiseworthy to do for a
corporation things which they would refuse with the loftiest scorn to
do for themselves. Fortunately for us all that delusion is passing
rapidly away.
President Hadley well said that "the fundamental division of powers in
the Constitution of the United States is between voters on the one hand
and property-owners on the other.
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