ourselves floating on an ebbing sea back to the shores we thought we
had forever left behind.

The founders of the republic met the needs of their hour, and expelled
the foreigner. We have failed to meet the need of our hour in not
discarding the economic laws that were of that foreigner's bringing;
the economic laws of the monarchist and despotic forms of government,
that is making this republic a republic only in name: the economic laws
of the monarchist and despotic forms of government that has built up an
aristocracy of wealth here as they have there, that must of necessity
depend here for its existence as it does there, on the enslavement of
the people. Do not let a mere word further deceive you. The word
republic means a free people - we are slaves. For great revenue, be it
of king or millionaire, has the same magician's wand - the overladen
back of the enslaved toiler.

In the face of our boasted intelligence what an appalling sight does
this country offer to the All-seeing Eye. An abundance of everything and
people starving by the thousands. When our lawmakers in Washington
learned that the death penalty was to be inflicted on those who were
convicted of treason for trying to overthrow the established government
in Hawaii, they said it must not be done, and busied themselves to save
those people's lives. And during all their agitation to save these men
who were to suffer a punishment that is meted out to such by all
governments, thousands of their own people were perishing for the want
of something to eat - not inhuman or hard-hearted, but simply do not see
how they can prevent it. There is no law by which they can stop
starvation. The legislator in a monarchy knows that poverty is inseparable
from that form of government and are reconciled to it.