Dad, As A Good American,

When The Masters Of Industry Pay Such Sums For A Newspaper, They Buy Not Merely The Building And The Presses And The Name; They Buy What They Call The "good-will"- That Is, They Buy You. And They Proceed To Change Your Whole Psychology - Everything That You Believe About Life. You Might Object To It, If You Knew; But They Do Their Work So Subtly That You Never Guess What Is Happening To You!

There Are A Score Of Great Religions In The World, Each With Scores Or Hundreds Of Sects, Each With Its Priestly Orders, Its Complicated Creed And Ritual, Its Heavens And Hells. Each Has Its Thousands Or Millions Or Hundreds Of Millions Of True Believers Each Damns All The Others With More Or Less Heartiness - And Each Is A Mighty Fortress Of Graft.

The American People Will Take Socialism, But They Won't Take The Label. I Certainly Proved It In The Case Of Epic [end Poverty In California]. Running On The Socialist Ticket I Got 60,000 Votes, And Running On The Slogan To 'end Poverty In California' I Got 879,000. I Think We Simply Have To Recognize The Fact That Our Enemies Have Succeeded In Spreading The Big Lie. There Is No Use Attacking It By A Front Attack, It Is Much Better To Out-flank Them.

Wall Street Had Been Doing Business With Pieces Of Paper; And Now Someone Asked For A Dollar, And It Was Discovered That The Dollar Had Been Mislaid.

And As For Other Men, Who Worked In Tank-rooms Full Of Steam, And In Some Of Which There Were Open Vats Near The Level Of The Floor, Their Peculiar Trouble Was That They Fell Into The Vats; And When They Were Fished Out, There Was Never Enough Of Them Left To Be Worth Exhibiting,-sometimes They Would Be Overlooked For Days, Till All But The Bones Of Them Had Gone Out Into The World As Durham's Pure Leaf Lard! This Contributed To The Passing Of The Pure Food Act Of 1906.