Such a man was entitled to no mercy.

Yes, it was all clear enough now.

John Burkett Ryder, the head of "the System," the plutocrat whose fabulous fortune gave him absolute control over the entire country, which invested him with a personal power greater than that of any king, this was the man who now dared attack the Judiciary, the corner stone of the Constitution, the one safeguard of the people's liberty.

Where would it end?
How long would the nation tolerate being thus ruthlessly trodden under the unclean heels of an insolent oligarchy?
The capitalists, banded together for the sole purpose of pillage and loot, had already succeeded in enslaving the toiler.

The appalling degradation of the working classes, the sordidness and demoralizing squalor in which they passed their lives, the curse of drink, the provocation to crime, the shame of the sweat shops--all which evils in our social system she had seen as a Settlement worker, were directly traceable to Centralized Wealth.