But oh, my dear sir, I utterly and radically disagree with you in what you say about large fortunes.

I wish it were in my power to devise some scheme to make it increasingly difficult to heap them up beyond a certain amount.

As the difficulties in the way of such a scheme are very great, let us at least prevent their being bequeathed after death or given during life to any one man in excessive amount.
"You and other capitalist friends, on one side, shy off at what I say against them.

Have you seen the frantic articles against me by [the anarchists and] the Socialists of the bomb-throwing persuasion, on the other side, because of what I said in my speech in reference to those who, in effect, advocate murder ?" On another occasion I was vehemently denounced in certain capitalistic papers because I had a number of labor leaders, including miners from Butte, lunch with me at the White House; and this at the very time that the Western Federation of Miners was most ferocious in its denunciation of me because of what it alleged to be my unfriendly attitude toward labor.

To one of my critics I set forth my views in the following letter: November 26, 1903.
"I have your letter of the 25th instant, with enclosure.