Behind the screen of the ballot, the real holders of power ... are the great industrial and monetary monopolies who own our national economic life.

Behind the screen of the ballot, the real holders of power ... are the great industrial and monetary monopolies who own our national economic life.

It is subversive to set up inquisitions like this, state or national, into the thoughts and consciences of Americans. . . . It is subversive for commissions like this to spread hysteria and intimidation throughout the land that Americans are afraid to sign petitions, afraid to read progressive magazines, afraid to make out checks for liberal causes, afraid to join organizations, afraid to speak their mind on public issues. Americans dare not be free citizens! This is the destruction of democracy.