He was warmly followed by a number of the others, and the cry of all was to destroy the trusts.
"Poor simple folk," Ernest said to me in an undertone.

"They see clearly as far as they see, but they see only to the ends of their noses." A little later he got the floor again, and in his characteristic way controlled it for the rest of the evening.
"I have listened carefully to all of you," he began, "and I see plainly that you play the business game in the orthodox fashion.

Life sums itself up to you in profits.

You have a firm and abiding belief that you were created for the sole purpose of making profits.

Only there is a hitch.