considered judgment, and in part from ignorance of the subject, has
been the cause of much misunderstanding, popular and academic.

No one section of the capitalist class can be held solely
responsible; nor were the morals and ethics of any one division
different from those of the others. The whole capitalist class was
coated with the same tar. Shipping merchants, traders in general,
landholders, banking and railroad corporations, factory owners,
cattle syndicates, public utility companies, mining magnates, lumber
corporations--all were participants in various ways in the subverting
of the functions of government to their own fraudulent ends at the
expense of the whole producing class.

While the railroad corporations were looting the public treasury and
the public domain, and vesting in themselves arbitrary powers of
taxation and proscription, all of the other segments of the
capitalist class were, at the same time, enriching themselves in the
same way or similar ways. The railroads were much denounced; but
wherein did their methods differ from those of the cattle syndicates,
the industrial magnates or the lumber corporations? The lumber barons
wanted their predacious share of the public domain; throughout
certain parts of the West and in the South were far-stretching,
magnificent forests covered with the growth of centuries. To want and
to get them were the same thing, with a Government in power
representative of capitalism.


SPOLIATION ON A GREAT SCALE.

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