THE US PRESIDENT ON MALEFACTORS OF GREAT WEALTH"
"It may well be that the determination of the government (in which, gentlemen,it will not waver) to punish certain malefactors of great wealth, has been responsible for something of the trouble; at least to the extent of having caused these men to combine to bring about as much financial stressas possible, in order to discredit the policy of the Government and thereby secure a reversal of that policy,so that they may enjoy.
No not President Obama... Twas Theodore Roosevelt. one hundred and four years ago......
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TORS OF GREAT WEALTH." Too much cannot be said against the men of wealth who sacrifice everything to getting wealth. There is not inthe world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American, insensible to every duty,regardless of every principle, bent only on amassing afortune, and putting his fortune only to the basest uses —whether these uses be to speculate in stocks and wreck railroads himself, or to allow his son to lead alife of foolish and expensive idleness and gross debauchery, or to purchase some scoundrel of highsocial position, foreign or native, for his daughter. Such a man is only the more dangerous if he occasionally does some deed like founding a college or endowing achurch, which makes those good people who are also foolish forget his real iniquity. These men are equally careless of the working men, whom they oppress, andof the State, whose existence they imperil. There arenot very many of them, but there is a very great number of men who approach more or less closely to the type,and, just in so far as they do so approach, they arecurses to the country. (Forum, February 1895.) Mem.Ed. XV, 10; Nat. Ed. XIII, 9.
