But in any event the dangerous lack of national economic balance involved by the existing distribution of wealth must be redressed.

This object is so essential that its attainment is worth the inevitable attendant risks.

In seeking to bring it about, no clear-sighted democratic economist would expect to "have it both ways." Even a very gradual displacement of the existing method of distributing economic fruits will bring with it regrettable wounds and losses.

But provided they are incurred for the benefit of the American people as an economic whole, they are worth the penalty.

The national economic interest demands, on the one hand, the combination of abundant individual opportunity with efficient organization, and on the other, a wholesome distribution, of the fruits; and these joint essentials will be more certainly attained under some such system as the one suggested than they are under the present system.
The genuine economic interest of the individual, like the genuine political interest, demands a distribution of economic power and responsibility, which will enable men of exceptional ability an exceptional opportunity of exercising it.