I do not oppose the insane asylum - but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to insanity and makes the lunatic asylum an indispensable adjunct to every civilized community.

The economic owning class is always the political ruling class.

The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.

The general public knows practically nothing about the prison and appears to be little concerned about how it is managed and how prisoners are treated.

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in cities, towns, and hamlets, ofttimes by men who graduated with an education and equipment for just that sort of retributive service from some penal institution.

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.