. . . the press and the pulpit have in every age and every nation been on the side of the exploiting class and the ruling class. - Eugene V. Debs

But, alas, this wealth, instead of blessing the race, has been the means of enslaving it. The few have come in possession of all, and the many have been reduced to the extremity of living by permission.

He must have had this Wall Street gentry in mind, or at least their prototypes, for in every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the people.

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.