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126 class. The capitalistic class does not consist merely of the men of big business, but includes all of the little merchants and all of the farmers, among whom the farmers as the weakest are in dire distress. No country can be healthy if it be not economically in equilibrium, and it is not so when half of its people are poor and the other half are extravagant. These are some of the reasons why the United States is not so well as many of its people believe. Now, for the simple formula for recovery:


 * 1. Promotion of the will to work.
 * 2. Promotion of the will to save.
 * 3. Removal of all economic restrictions.

The first two prescriptions relate to state of mind, which we must first make healthy. The third prescription is the active agent. Let us scan our statute books and our existing practices and if we find anything of the nature of economic restriction let us abolish it unless there be some mighty good reason why that should not be done. You see I do not wholly revert to laissez faire. Nevertheless, I think we ought to go a long way toward it. If we do this, having already created a healthy state of mind, the law of supply and demand will do the rest.

I have no patience with sociologists, who in the desire to increase human happiness (which all of us have) see in the present unrest of peoples merely the effort of the submerged and dissatisfied to get that from which they have heretofore been deprived, or out of which they have been cheated, with a hope of attainment as never before. We are told by some who are described as idealists. that we ought to recognize this and give the masses what they want in the true spirit of progress,